Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private train costing $375,000 has just been purchased for the President of Mexico (TIME, May 9) is robbed of all significance by your failure to allude to the practice of sleeping in an ordinary "lower" which is observed by the President of the United States.* Let me tell you that our President gains nothing by this practice, and certainly our country gains nothing. Is there a man or woman in the U. S. who would have less respect for our President if he traveled in the world's finest private train, costing perhaps $1,000,000? Let me answer...
...nothing new to state that people are more interested in themselves than they are in anything else in the world. Tell a man that you saw his name in a newspaper or in a magazine, or that you heard his name mentioned by some public speaker, and his interest mounts instantly. Races, no less than individuals, are interested in themselves...
...accordingly tell you something of the woman whose picture you published on p. 17 of TIME, May 2, under the caption of "Uglies...
...sons' sons will hear that joke; he looks back into the past and sees all his ancestors laughing at that joke. And he doubles up with the pain of the cumulative sorrow. "Why must", the words ring in the somber chambers of his brain, "why must a professor tell the same story for thirty years, a hundred years?" Titters in oblivion! And four out of five...
...John--John--tell me." Appleby's voice was thick, his nose ran, his young face looked years older. Divisionals and g-n are hard on a growing...