Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family, my husband is the subscriber and I am the reader of TIME. He says there is no use for him to read it because I memorize it as soon as it comes and tell it to him at the dinner table. I assure him that I give him only teasers but I strongly suspect him of superficiality because he doesn't read every word every week...
People Don't Do Such Things. Suavity is a rarity in the equipment of U. S. playwrights. Suavity was, among other things, badly needed in this selection. It was needed to tell neatly the story of a man who loved numerous women; married two of them; survived to see them decide to live with him en trois. At the end they had retreated to other, less complicated amorous arrangements, and he was looking up telephone numbers in the faithful old notebook which had been waiting quietly the entangled while. All this is clumsy; seldom witty; always eminently well played...
...logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity. Opera of any appreciable allegorical content are usually picked up and laid aside at random. Not so with Juggler's Kiss. It is to be read...
...scurrying in the French and British and Italian offices to answer is. For whatever recriminations pass between diplomats, the feeling of the people of the world seems to be for peace, with disarmament as the first step toward world security. Mean-while the British and Italian foreign offices tell their people through the press that the Russians always spoil every conference anyway, just as soon as it gets nicely going, and so the people must not expect too much of the conference at Geneva. France has also taken steps to keep her people from the conviction that she herself...
...demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after two or three days, tell the Managing Editor that his studies are getting a bit harder, and he won't have time for the CRIMSON, shake hands and departs. Or he may cancel his social engagements for the next nine weeks, say good-bye to his roommate, and start working. Surprisingly few, once they have...