Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Oct. 31, you printed a recipe for liver. I have pernicious anemia and must eat liver, and I am tired of it. Every time I see a slab of brown I get cross. But I must eat liver. Will you kindly tell me where I can get some recipes to vary my liver diet...
...Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
...Idea: A dictionary of etiquette for 1928.* The Motive: To tell those who do not set standards what is being done by those who do. The Story: Although famed Emily Post's outline of etiquette has run through 17 printings, people keep on asking her new conduct-questions. Recent examples: "Do you think it would be attractive to have the groom sing a solo at his wedding . . . and do I stay with the groom after the wedding most of the time?" Another: "How do you teach children not to swallow fish bones?" Another: "How can I develop sufficient ingenuity...
...Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball or basketball game, or other physical exhibition, we would have turned thousands away. But here we have a group of children doing a serious work marvelously and our auditorium is less than half filled. . . . I want you to tell all your friends that I consider it a shame that Cleveland hasn't filled this auditorium for this occasion...
...blonde, Lizzie Stokes, is transformed into dark and dangerous Russian actress, Olga Rostova, thus allowing Esther Ralston to prove that she can be quite as intriguing under a black wig as under her own shingled gold. The plot moves quietly along until the moment when Olga Rostova must tell her most devoted admirer in the presence of her producer and severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic...