Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average undergraduate reader, the book will be interesting, since it will tell him what his sisters and cousins and, perhaps, aunts, in women's colleges, are thinking and saying about the things which trouble or amuse him most. To the serious-minded student who is bothered in turn about the health of the American undergraduate body, the book may be valuable, although the material is too fragmentary and heterogeneous to be fitted readily into a thesis mould. About all it proves, as we see it, is that the men and women of Ascalon are not like those of Gath
...truth. It don't take even the makings of a prophet to predict the biggest landslide for Hoover this country has ever had. Desire to thank you for your bravery, and the national service which you performed when you and you alone have dared to tell the truth as witnessed in your issue of Sept. 17 when you unreservedly say: "The popular observation is that the Nominee (Al Smith) when seen off duty, often has had, before evening enough drinks to be visibly stimulated thereby." You have given us a full page picture of what the President...
Queen-Empress Mary, imperturbable, replied: "Tell matron the Queen has called...
...insults are deadlier than to tell a male that he is not a man. Yet last week precisely this insult was hurled at Italian bachelors and childless husbands by Benito Mussolini, begettor of a daughter, Edda, and three sons: Bruno, Vittorio, Romano...
...public support to any candidate he pleases. As a Christian minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding the sobriety of the nation. But he usurps an authority never accorded him when he uses his high office to tell the members of the Church for whom they should vote...