Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wriggle awfully self-consciously. You say: "... Many sound wine critics con-cede . . . that in its class . . ." etc., etc. What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world...
...fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...
...University of California play the University of Alabama. California was bent on spoiling Alabama's record of never having been defeated in the Rose Bowl. In the first quarter Alabama outplayed California. But in the second quarter the pounding of the heavier California line began to tell on Alabama, and California's Vic Bottari hustled around right end for a touchdown from the 3-yd. line. He duplicated the play in the next quarter, and that ended the scoring. California...
...tell American Water Works to get rid of its prune orchards. But if it wished to, said the Commissioners, it could take "a reasonable period of time" to sell them-an obvious effort to convince other utilities that if they become a little more sociable SEC is perfectly willing to make friends...