Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denver is the Super-Optimist, I'll tell the world. . . . Denver is ten miles high in hospitality. You can't tell me it is only 5,280 feet above sea level."?Thomas B. Elliott of St. Louis, international secretary-treasurer...
Chief of Police Joseph Wakelin soon saw that the "extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...
...reasons for not presenting myself to the Academy? They concern me alone. Look here. Here are my books, my Demosthenes, my garden. I have lived my life and I can confide to you what now is my one principle: one must never tell what one feels, knows or sees. That is why I am not going to talk under the cupola of the Academy. That is why I shall continue to commune with myself in silence. In my day the journalists did the talking for the public. These days the public talks for the journalists...
...awakens him at 9 a.m., presenting a light, Parisian breakfast of coffee and rolls. Although punctual about this breakfast hour, M. Bratiano is, thereafter, the acme of exquisite and sophisticated ease-of nicely timed delay. "I try to put off until tomorrow," he has said, "the mistakes which people tell me I ought to make today...
...voice and a clear laugh. She does not know men. Aimee Semple McPherson has been careful to keep men out of her daughter's ken. The girl, however, does know people. On the platform of the Chicago Coliseum, which Mrs. McPherson hired at $1,000 a day to tell about her notorious kidnaping of a year ago (TIME, June 7, 1926 ), the daughter last week followed her mother. She held her audience's attention, put them in a mood of sanctity, but she took no money from them. Mrs. McPherson did that, after her own sermon. Later...