Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn't. . . . He said the work was 'very satisfactory.' I asked him if he wanted my men to come up there and be killed, why in hell he didn't tell me that...
...years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman.'' Asked what references he had offered, "Chowderhead" Cohen grunted: "They never ask for no references in this line of work. Tell 'em anything. Tell 'em nuttin'!" Witness Cohen flushed angrily when asked if he had ever been convicted of crime. "I got a right to earn an honest living," he shouted. "I refuse to answer that question. They locked me up, this committee here, four times for vagrancy." "What committee...
...recent bumbling admission in the House of Commons that he would have told the public of the war danger Britain faces except that he was afraid that would lose him the last General Election, the Daily Mail cried: "Surely those who have recently confessed that they dare not tell the people the truth will realize the gulf between their conduct and the King's methods in Wales...
...minority of Communists (less than 1 ½% of the population) whose rigid party discipline makes them cogs in a machine of which J. Stalin is the Great Engineer. From now on Communist organs will call this Democracy. An audacious touch in Moscow last week was for Intourist guides to tell visiting foreigners: "Our new Constitution is a million times more Democratic than any other!" The new and adroit Communist Constitution, indeed, almost entitled J. Stalin to rank with the immortal H. Dumpty of Through the Looking-Glass who boasted, "When I use a word it means just what I choose...
...almost unknown to laymen, even in Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there are just two things in America I wanted...