Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afterward declared unconstitutional they could not get their money back. The law permits refunds only to processors who can prove they have not passed on the processing taxes to the public. In the nature of the rice milling business, he contended, no one could tell, much less prove, whether or not the tax was passed...
...picture is charged with unintentional humor. Richard Dix brings this out when that grim square jaw of his goes into action and he tells Madge Evans, blinded wife and bereaved mother, "Kiss me and tell me to go back into the tunnel." But everybody knows that the fault is in the script, and Mr. Dix, with years of variegated experience behind him, is easily the best...
...This is the same system that the handwriting expert uses. He cannot tell from a single characteristic who wrote a letter, but through a culmination of observations, he seldom fails in his diagnosis...
...have discovered several frauds while doing my research," he said, "but I can't tell you about them, for the people who own these works refuse to believe they are frauds and would be furious if anything was published about them...
...John Dryden who did talk to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to me of the purpose of poetry that it was to "instruct delightfully" and I sought to draw him out to talk of his "Marriage a la Mode." He did not understand when I did tell him one day it would delight young students even as a Christmas play so I turned to philosophy and I did hear him say that Nature was the source and end and test of art. This coming from so great a scholar pleased me much...