Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, ill. The State Department has been conning the Briand document. President Coolidge has been thinking about it. Last week, Editor E. G. Burkham of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal, close friend of Ambassador Herrick and newspaper partner of his son, Parmely Herrick, called at the White House to tell President Coolidge that Ambassador Herrick would soon be well enough to return to Paris. President Coolidge let it be known that when Ambassador Herrick is ready to resume his post, instructions will be ready for him in the matter of the Briand proposal, instructions looking toward a treaty's adoption...
...time" at $5 per day but not paying a whole lot of attention to the evidence. The soft-drink boys sarcastically asked him if he did not expect to get something more than $5 per day out of the trial? perhaps a snappy automobile? Juror Kidwell hoped to tell them he expected an automobile. "If I don't have one as long as this block," he boasted, "I'll be kind of disappointed...
...number of things which I did not say. It is not my practice to attempt to correct newspaper stories, but so much attention has been given to this sensational yarn and so much emphasis has been placed upon statements I did not make and stories I did not tell and I have received so much praise for something I did not do, that I did write an explanatory and corrective letter to Colonel N. G. Osborn of the New Haven Journal-Courier, whose editorial was the first intimation I had of the existence of this extremely garbled account...
...place as the intelligence department of the Harvard squad demands, my presence here. John Quinn Knoss is to scout Penn during the first half and tell the boys what to do in the second half, while I scour them in the second half and tell the boys what they ought to have done in the first half...
...species of Homo sapiens known as that "Harvard man." Not that the judgment of these--shall we say scientists--has not always been very exact. Indeed according to many accounts the Harvard man is chiefly famous for three things--his unfortunate choice in his tailor, the "you can always tell a Harvard man but you can't tell him much" joke and his indifference...