Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resent being called a sucker. That's a low-down insult, a slap at all my buddies who went west, as well as those of us still carrying on. Would World Peaceways dare tell any Gold Star Mother her son was a sucker...
Forehanded Niceto Alcala Zamora had already closed his Presidential Palace desk, gone home where he refused to receive the commission sent to tell him the bad news. Said he: "I am nobody's servant." Automatically elevated to the Provisional Presidency was another Left Republican, Diego Martinez-Barrios, onetime linotype operator, onetime Premier and Premier Manuel Azaña's prot...
...qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils. Although at the time she was a medical student of that University, she scooted home to her family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion to that of the specialist who happened to make the examination...
More disillusioned than most of her heartthrob imitators, Dorothy Dix is nevertheless a stern foe of sexual irregularity among her readership. "Often a girl writes me that I have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn...
Hence she to ask me to dinner if "I dared change my creed." So to Milton and all the afternoon to give her little sisters many piggy-back rides and to tell them many stories of giants and flowers and fairies. Whence rose the serious discussion: "Are fairies real?" 'Tis a pity little ones doubt so young. Of course fairies are real. Real as Peter Rabbit and Easter bunnies; real as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; real as Robinson Crusoe and unfound treasures; real as princesses and bold Knights; real as songs never sung and poems never written; real...