Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches, and I think you'd need a slide rule to tell it wasn't the usual shoe. From 75% to 80% of my business is done by mail; a good proportion of these deliveries go to small cities and towns, in plain addressed wrappers and general delivery. Doesn't a fellow get program credit anymore...
This week an Associated Press correspondent "somewhere in the Yangtze Valley" with Generalissimo & Mme Chiang was permitted to flash that influenza had bedded the Wife of the Year, quoted the Man of the Year as saying: "Tell America to have complete confidence in us. The tide of battle is turning and victory eventually will be ours...
...however, which brought tears to British eyes and lumps to millions of British throats. Loyal subjects, drawn in sympathy to King George VI as never before, heard His Majesty bravely make a Christmas broadcast, his halting voice strained with emotion. In effect what the King had to tell his people was that the great effort to overcome his speech impediment, an effort which he has made for years and, which carried him through his Coronation without skipping or mispronouncing a single word (TIME, May 24), was too great for him to continue broadcasting...
...Patterson, president of United Air Lines, it seemed that Blackett-Sample-Hummert were trying to tell the U. S. flying public that it is not only more comfortable on American Airlines, but safer. It is a custom that no airline ever violates the united front against anti-flying psychology and earthly means of transportation, for if a customer is told that the route of one airline is needlessly risky, instead of taking another airline he may take a train...
...Farmers briefly relates the history of farming in the U. S., describes modern farming methods, tells how Tip Estes, a typical Indiana farmer, and his family work and live; discusses the income of rich and poor farmers, tenants, sharecroppers and laborers; sums up what the Government would or could do for farmers. What makes Building America unique is the extraordinary illustrations that tell the story so well that they need little explanatory text. Notably communicative photographs in Our Farmers include a grimy farmer drinking water from a tin cup beside his tractor, Tip Estes' family of eight sitting down...