Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst on the witness stand is a pleasant combination of Sam Weller and Titus Oakes. Not quite sure what the fuss is about, he is perfectly willing to tell the gentlemen all they wish to know. He doesn't like to think money has been paid to senators, but he has seen the documents. Of course his six million dollar holdings in Mexico have nothing to do with the case even if the series was planned when Calles menaced foreign capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International...
...answer to the question whether he had met with unsportsmanlike treatment in France, as has been hinted at by many writers, he answered. "No crowd in Europe ever behaved as badly as the American crowd to Cochet in the Davis Cup match, and you can tell them I said...
WASHINGTON SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF -Lucretia Perry Osborn-Scribner's ($3.50). Provoked by the flood of so-called biographies of General Washington, Mr. Osborn has joined together the writings of the man himself to the end that Washington may tell his own story. These writings, which include diaries, letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...contrast to the European press partisanship, the papers here on which the citizen is dependent for his knowledge of governmental affairs deem it best to respect the feelings of the men at Washington, and tell the reader what he likes to believe is true. Revelline in their nonpartisanship, and in the confidence of legislators, the papers refuse to stimulate by criticism. They ignored the maladministration of Harding's term. As a recent particular, see how they minimized Nicaraguan troubles where in a single battle, whether rightly or wrongly, the marines with one loss killed six hundred native rebels. The weekly...