Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night Skip declared, "We're not as good as two years ago when we won the New England championship but you can never tell what will happen...
Advice "to be sure to tell mother" or "ask mother to buy" must be limited to twice in one program...
...that time Mr. Cassells had decided that consumers needed to know more than how to tell good peanuts from bad. Soon he had his students not only sallying forth on practice shopping expeditions and investigating advertising, but also studying economics, banking and even Plato's Republic...
...bonds with four banks as collateral for personal loans. Flushed, but holding his handsome head high, Mr. Bird heard the prosecutor accuse him of living beyond his means, speculating in the market, and having a "hunger" for directorships. Then Bird's lawyer, George H. Cohen, rose to tell the story behind the crime. His story...
Turnabout. Oliver St. John Gogarty is an Irish physician, Senator, wit, poet and the original of Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke...