Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wondering where you got the idea (TIME, Sept. 5, p.8) that the name of the Governor of California is Charles, and I am wondering still more why no loyal Californian has written to you as yet to tell you that his name is Clement...
...breath; and walk a good many miles every month looking for jobs. I haven't been able to find a job lately; and Mr. Blake's $10 would mean a lot. I am really very, very active. I am sure I could win. Will you tell Mr. Epstein? Tell him I will even split the winning with him; but I cannot split the loss...
...company, the embarrassed banker as loud as any, begged him not to stop now; to go on and tell his white brothers how they should behave towards men with brown skins. They made Mr. Bingham go on for another half hour, nodding, ejaculating, thanking, congratulating him at the end; nodding and ejaculating anew when, as he thanked some brown-skinned girls for their singing, Hiram Bingham said he was glad that brown Hawaii had not, like the white U. S., had to go to Africa for jazz...
Speakeasy. The frantic urge to tell of horrors in drink dens of Manhattan has infected no less a dramatist than Edward Knoblock. Mr. Knoblock has to his credit such dramas as Milestones, with Arnold Bennett as coauthor, Kismet, Marie-Odile. Not so decidedly to his credit is this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays...
Finch, passing through the dark woods one night, hears Pheasant and Eden together, goes to tell Piers. Then Pheasant runs away to her father's house, until Renny and Piers go to bring her back to Jalna. Eden, too, flees the cold forests and the scornful, narrow fields of his bitter home. Alayne plans to return to New York and her old work, where one hopes that Renny will be her companion. Meg, the peg that holds the last of the story together, stops shuddering at the sins of Maurice...