Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell you, TIME, they all lay down sooner or later...
...newsgatherers drew Mrs. Smith out to tell about her husband's telephoning her from Albany. "He didn't say much," she said. "I just asked him about the family and he told me they were all well, and then he asked me how we were all feeling. I just told him that we all felt fine. Yes, indeed, it was nice to talk to him again...
...United Press despatch from Paris read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...
...them. "The vitality of any art, even in its most formal and purely aesthetic aspect, depends on some theme which is a living factor in the existence of a whole people and which colors their emotions and motivates their lives. . . . "To say that pictures need not, or should not, tell a story is to state the problem falsely. In all great epochs of art, the painter's subject was already a story with which generations of poets, philosophers and visionaries had moved the hearts and stirred the minds of men. "If the painter is to survive he must make...
...pleasanter lunatic than José Marinat perhaps never lived. Years have passed since he first won the hearts of shrewd peasants in the suburbs of Tarragona by three peculiarities. He would work without pay. He loved to tell stories to children. And to toss "Poor José" an old guitar was the prelude to an evening of wild, haunting melody...