Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past was not encouraging, the future none could tell...
...Zenith's Main Street, admiring a handsome museum, four handsome churches, a dozen glittering drug stores. After he had dined on excellent roast beef in his hotel, Bill Smith lit a cigar and strolled out to a cinema, making up his mind on the way that he would tell his wife Zenith was a "great town...
Those who saw the portrait, however, could tell that its subject was a titled man-of-the-world, a sportsman, a connoisseur of literature, art and tobacco. A dinner jacket suit, from which the painter has removed himself, sits upright in a chair beside a small round table, on which there are a signet ring, a pipe and a leather-bound book. Behind the chair, where the room's blue-green walls meet, stand three polo mallets; near them hangs the painting of an Italianate nude...
...aware that he had led a remarkable life, believed that he had lived in a remarkable age. After his right hand was crippled at Ball's Bluff, he learned to write with his left. But his left arm was paralyzed at Antietam, so when he sat down to tell the story of his life he shifted back to the crippled right...
...saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...