Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "If the Senator from Michigan will tell . . . when it is going to rain and when the sun is going to shine and when we are going to have a drought...
Kindhearted Britons at once began, sending him bagfuls of coal, jugs of home-made wine, baskets of greens and even unused postage stamps with which to keep His Majesty's correspondence going. "I am a poor man, yes!" Haile Selassie told Miss Steedman to tell the world, "but I am not an object of charity. Such undignified gifts as these should be sent to the Abyssinia Association for the relief of refugees...
Famed British off-color-storyteller, Max Miller, got the only laugh in which Their Majesties could not very well join. Unlike the rest of the audience, King George and Queen Elizabeth apparently did not know the end of the extremely old and questionable anecdote which Mr. Miller began to tell, then brought down the breathless house by glancing at the Royal Box and breaking off "No, no! I can't tell this one tonight!" Instead Max told the one about the girl who said to him "Aren't you ugly...
Speaking as a "battle-scarred veteran" and out of a vast abyss of experience," Hutchins concluded that "it's bad enough to be an educator anyway. We can't tell whether our students succeed because of us or in spite of us." If they are successful "we take the credit and if they fall--they shouldn't have been admitted in the first place...
...material this year is only average," said Clark Hodder '25, Freshman hockey coach, "but I will be able to tell better after next Tuesday's game...