Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tell your political editor, who is otherwise a really estimable fellow, to watch his figure...
...last week a gawky, sallow-faced man of 39 stood in the U. S. Immigration station on San Francisco's Angel Island and swore to tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...
...headquarters of Press Wireless, surrounded by the barren salt marshes off Baldwin, Long Island, gathered engineers of Newark's publicity-wise Station WOR, good-natured Curator Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, newshawks, photographers, announcers standing by to tell all. Before sending their signal, the engineers spent forty-five minutes twirling the knobs of 40 short-wave receivers, trying to catch a signal from Mars, where the highest form of life is generally believed to be some low form of vegetation, possibly resembling moss. Result: a potpourri of short-wave noises, most of them promptly identified...
...Willie's tales, which he learned from his grandmother and which takes hours to tell because it is replete with rich and often racy detail, concerns the tribulations of the Delawares after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for admittance "up above where he should go," he could not get in because he was denied. That night a manitou (spirit) visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before...
Tycoons last week took turns reporting to stockholders on the state of their businesses during the first half of A.D. 1939. Most of them were able to tell a fairly cheerful story by comparing the mediocre first half of 1939 with the terrible first half of 1938. But those businessmen who hope great things for the second half of 1939 hung most on the words of steel industry, both of whose two big units last week reported...