Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should consult no crystal balls, no mystics, no political prophets, no embattled farmers?but he should go straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...
Senator Reed, having secured several favorable rulings from Judge Fred Raymond barring the racial issue from the suit, launched the defense with his most inflammatory and satiric senatorial style. Said he: "I think His Honor will tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This...
...offenses than were attributed to them during the War. Says the author: "The War-years, to which the youngest reader can bear witness, receive the least extended treatment-for they were merely the logical epilogue to the psychological prologue." Since the author virtually steps down and lets his characters tell their own story, the book is an invaluable mine of quotations from the memoirs and autobiographies of Imperial Germany's great men. Many of these works are fresh from German presses, and quite unobtainable in English...
...Outer Belt Line of Chicago. . . . Having information which was not in possession of Mr. Morgan or his legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them to do'. . . . [From this, some have drawn the unwarranted inference] that he was willing to do an illegal thing...
Beau Geste, The Better 'Ole, The Big Parade, Don Juan, The Fire Brigade, Old Ironsides, Metropolis, Stark Love, Tell It To The Marines, What Price Glory...