Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes. When news of the Panay sinking reached Washington fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt's first official act was to initial a curt memorandum asking Secretary of State Cordell S. Hull to tell the Japanese Ambassador "that the President is deeply shocked and concerned by the news of indiscriminate bombing of American and other non-Chinese vessels on the Yangtze and that he requests that the Emperor be so advised...
...spite of, or because of the fact that Miss Skinner is the hardest-worked actress now playing on Broadway, her entertainment has a large element of stunt-appeal. Theatregoers tell each other how wonderful it is that she can do it all alone. Edna His Wife is also a fascinating guessing-game. Only by inference from the spoken lines can the audience know what the invisible characters are supposed to be saying. Thanks to Miss Skinner's powers of suggestion, Edna's husband, who never appears, seems as real as any person in the play...
...committal about the Bruin's chances, Ross said, "All the teams in the league are so evenly matched, you can't tell what's going to happen...
...Hotelmen tell another tale which reflects the hostility of the two managements. Last September the Partridge Club, an association of hotel supply men with membership limited to 75, decided to give a banquet for Charles Rochester. Ralph Hitz thereupon let it be known that his hotels would buy no food, liquor, or anything else from any supply man who attended. A majority of the supply men stood fast and 285 members and guests attended the dinner. Thereupon Ralph Hitz began to make good his threat, even taking his advertising out of Hotel Gazette because it mentioned the dinner...
...furtherance of "something new" Poets Auden and MacNeice wind up their book by collaborating on a unique Last Will and Testament in which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...