Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home-lover, he proceeded with his wife and two of his children to the place of his birth in Tredegar, Wales. There he gently touched some grey stones, said: "Here is the old firegrate, where my mother used to tell me stories about fairies...
...friends had to get the life guards' rowboat and take him around the point to Sea Gate. That large portion of Demos which had failed to see its Nominee, or to show him to its sweethearts, its wives, its offspring, was disappointed. The other part had something to tell about...
When the mob's sentimental and superstitious demands for the exile of Claudia are brought to Cardinal Madruzzo, he exclaims in amazement and scorn: "I supposed that the people desired a material diminution of taxes, a free distribution of food. ... Go and tell them that Emanuel Madruzzo does not obey the orders...
...They tell me that I finished out the round, knocking the man out. I punched him so hard he rolled under the ropes. Then I boxed two rounds with Eddie Eagan. But I don't remember it. I walked around dazed and almost in the dark...
...SAVOUR OF LIFE-Arnold Bennett-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). Mr. Bennett has a grievance. People tell him he is a greater novelist than journalist, and he doesn't like it, because he has more fun being a journalist. So he writes a great many essays on a great many subjects to prove that a good modern novelist is essentially a journalist. But the fact remains that none of his journalism is as good as Clayhanger or The Old Wives' Tale...