Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just to tell you that the portrait of Sinclair Lewis on the cover of TIME, March 14 gives one the best possible insight into Elmer Gantry and the rest of Lewis' yammerings...
...open revolt at what they call their bond-slavery to our Treasury. Everywhere in Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like to see Germany clean up France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none...
...Rocky Mountain playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will be constructed with his approval. Congress will pass it next winter and the President will have solved a tough knot. . . . Such is the predicted strategy. ¶ Paul Claudel, French Ambassador...
Their wars do not interest U. S. citizens except objectively, for most Americans cannot tell one tonger from another. It is only within the meagre, squalid, Chinese districts that a war constitutes any menace. These are but the wars of laundrymen, waiters...
...when mammon-worshiping, penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell the truth concerning these soul-blasting tyrannies...