Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malraux's photograph was not retouched. As any constant smoker could tell, Constant Smoker Malraux was about to light one cigaret from the butt of another...
...President was not ready to tell who the next Attorney General would be. Observers guessed it would be Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson. They also guessed that before Thanksgiving's turkey hash was all consumed there would be more changes in the Cabinet...
...tell you without concealment and without evasion that it is a question of saving the country," said small, intense, terrier-like M. Reynaud. He explained that even if all Frenchmen now unemployed suddenly went back to work, this would raise industrial production in France only some 7%. According to M. Reynaud, it "must" be shot up 30 to 40% for "adequate" economic and military Rearmament...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m., NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony, Schumann's Manfred Overture, the Love Scene from Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet, two dances from Rossini's William Tell...
...such moments I can tell you for certain that this is the breakup, the cataclysm, the drop-curtain on the world. . . . In the Abbey they are still marking the places in the hymnbooks, oblivious of the fact that tomorrow we shall have forgotten how to read. . . . In London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination...