Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart, is not only untimely; it is downright discourteous. If "the freedom and fraternity of the scholarly world" holds "the surest hope" for "our civilization", why not deal directly and put away childish "greetings"? One has a feeling that a German University would never be afraid to tell Harvard, if it did not want to come to one of our celebrations, the reasons for not wanting to come. The German spirit, the spirit of the airmen who met their doom at Lakehurst, would never have scrupled to make plain their feelings...
...refuse, but I won't tell the truth. . . . Why should I? ... I'm over 50. Now go ahead...
...tell you, but I won't tell the public...
...bottle of beer in his office last week he observed: "Knights of the Hose is a name that fully covers our business, and any Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business are tied together so closely that we cannot tell at times which is serious and which is fun." Grand Knight Ellis gave all credit for the founding of his organization to Chief Pump Knight E. Chat Shanks, NAPR's executive secretary who makes his headquarters in Milwaukee's Republican Hotel, and to Brass Nozzle Knight Wilmer...
James was her husband; his sleep was sound as long as she was there beside him. Her 13-year-old son Robert had lost a leg when he was a little boy; it was easy to imagine, though impossible to tell by watching him, what he dreamed about...