Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains the cream of German crookdom. Traditionally a tithe of the loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers are richly fed when Club members get arrested. Every so often despatches tell that the Ever Loyals have held another unexpected, cataclysmic midnight convention in Berlin. Always on these occasions they appear in hired or stolen tuxedoes, cruising and boozing in a fleet of taxicabs. One night last week on Berlin's Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest...
...ALEXANDER, KING OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES, FEEL IT MY DUTY AS A SON OF THIS LAND TO TURN TO YOU, ITS PEOPLE, AND FRANKLY AND TRUTHFULLY TELL YOU WHAT IN THIS MOMENT MY CONSCIENCE AND LOVE OF THE FATHERLAND COMPEL...
Once, taking a dislike to the music critic's hair, he cabled: "Tell Meltzer to cut his hair." Further exchanges of cables found Meltzer with hair still uncut. Bennett cabled: "Send him to St. Petersburg...
...Lakin forward line combinations will be ready to maintain a high pressure attack on the Green cage. O. P. Jackson '29, who has turned in several remarkable performances in defense of the Harvard goal, will resume his regular berth today, and the relative power of him and Bott may tell the story of the game
...pretty upsetting to the stand-patters. The philosophers who insist that place is only relative, after all, will hall a support. We live in a world of change, they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...