Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What I maintain is that if there is one radical teacher in the schools, colleges, or universities of this state, and this Oath Bill does away with him, it is worth more than words can tell...
Brilliant Cuban costumes will be sported by the chorines as they daintily trip through "Don't Tell Miguel", rhumba feature of the coming Hasty Pudding Show "The Lid's Off", which will open for its first public performance on Tuesday, March 24 in the Clubhouse at 12 Holyoke Street...
...would tell Havelock Ellis intelligible facts about life when he was a lad. Only son of good & religious seafaring English parents, when he was 16, "like many other boys of my age ... I was much puzzled over the phenomena of sex. ... I determined that I would make it the main business of my life to get to the real natural facts of sex apart from all would-be moralistic or sentimental notions, and so spare the youth of future generations the trouble and the perplexity which this ignorance had caused...
...discovered that most people like to talk about their sex life. Therefore he holed himself up with a great collection of books on the manners and customs of primitive and ancient peoples and let the concupiscent, the celibate and the sexually miserable beat a path to his study and tell him all. His marriage in 1891 to bubbling Edith M. O. Lees, who died in 1916, made his sage-in-the-study life practicable. Their only marriage vow was not to deceive one another. They confidently maintained separate homes, and she did not disturb him in his investigations...
...hardly seemed to care, numb to an aching misery, not so much that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable to himself, and in the procedure twisted askew the axis of his private life." And even schoolboys still struggling- with Caesar's Commentaries can tell Author Pratt he is wrong to write ''The Roman spell was broke," or ''The Gauls were beat...