Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation, the President several times repeated that he would call no special session of the Senate or House of Representatives. But, back in Washington, it behooved him last week to let the politicians come and tell him he was right...
...decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize card tables as Contract Bridge...
...less heroic than the captains who go down with their ships are the radio and wireless operators who stand by their instruments to the last, tapping out distress signals. There is always the chance that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held...
Witnesses. These cases have reached court at an opportune moment. All the main witnesses are conveniently at hand. In his cell at Michigan City, Ind., onetime Dragon Stephenson has been telling secrets with his eye on the prison gate. From his cell in Atlanta, Warren T. McCray returned home last fortnight, happy to be free, resolving to be good. He of all men can tell what passed between the Governors of Indiana...
Meantime in the gay French metropolis fierce gendarmes with black, twirled mustachios and bright clanking swords, sat meekly, puzzled, over little books of English Made Easy. "Ah, how fine it would be to tell a U. S. legionnaire, who had enquired, 'Ou est Place Pigalle?' 'Straight ahead, buddy...