Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patience and self-restraint has been rewarded, for many times during past football seasons we have wanted to tell you just how good these teams are down here. We're glad we didn...
...TIME, Oct. 25, 1937, under "Miscellany" you have an article entitled "Gourmet" and you tell of a Harvard freshman who ate prodigiously. A gourmet is an epicure. The term you wanted is gourmand...
...program. This week the Spadeas thought they had at last fused a sure-fire formula, optimistically put upon American News Co. stands 50,000 copies of You, an intimate, elaborate 50? guidebook to female beauty. A quarterly, because female camouflage veers with the four seasons, You will strive to tell women how to be comely-how to pick a coiffure, how to purse and paint their lips, how to apply face powder. Feature article of the first issue is "Your Bosom...
...opinion that American journalists were following the rebellion of American authors. "Journalists are no longer wearing blinkers," he said, approving realistic reporting. Some writers he felt were too rough-and-ready but added that these were a necessary evil which went along with the progress of making the newspapers tell the truth. "We must get rid of gentility," he declared...
...morning. The advantages of this system are many. You can not put the telephone under your pillow like an alarm clock, and turn it off and go right back to sleep. You are certain to answer the telephone if you can hear it, for you never can tell what sweet thing might be calling you. And you almost feel as though your dreams had come true when you hear the cheery voice of the operator bidding you good morning...