Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatic. By deft combinations of his typewriter keys he can invest an incident of seeming insignificance with an ours of mystery, a glamor of confidential secrecy, or a cloak of magnificent magnitude. At times he adopts, and very successfully, the attitude of an author of "Things I Shouldn't Tell". The fact that he never does tell them only renders his writings more interesting to the reader...
...inexhaustible fund of stories, suited to all climes, ages, and moods, makes him one of the most congenial of the Cambridge newspapermen. It is not so much the stories which he tells, as those which he might tell, which renders him a popular speaker in any gathering of the Fourth Estate. His popularity with the fraternity is increased by his ability to be, on occasion, a very good listener...
...should expect to find neatly pressed clothing, red neckties, large wardrobes, pocket books and imaginations prevalent among the undergraduate body. I should realize, having quit the laissez-faire atmosphere of Yale for the savoir-faire atmosphere of Harvard, my intellectual inferiority to those who majestically point out buildings, tell us how to get to Soldiers Field, and invite us in for a couple before the game...
...wherever you are I should like to see you if ever you come to New Haven; you must come over for dinner. I do not care for stimulants as a rule--indeed I rarely touch them--but this sheems to have hit the spot. My friends tell me I haave all the qualities of a good drinker but then you know the things your friends will tell...
Repertory--"You Never Can Tell...