Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just read your account of the recent "blood and eggs riot" on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 21, 1927. Were you there? If it were not for my Harvard indifference, I would tell you to cancel my subscription to your damned magazine...
...Truth to tell, Washington has become the universal Mecca of human freaks. To that city protagonists of vagaries gravitate by all known routes, some by election, some by appointment, some by 'divine command.' The great majority, however, merely follow noses that itch for the business of others. There they bed and breed...
...Insull had flatly refused to tell to whom he gave $40,000 of his quarter million, and that was why Senator Reed cited him for contempt. The penalty for this offense varies from one month to one year in jail, plus a fine. But Mr. Insull is in no immediate danger of entering a cell. First the Senate must find him guilty of contempt; then he can still carry his case to the Supreme Court...
...Tell the Wife (Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon). The idea of a wife giving her errant husband tit for tat by holding hands with an old friend of the family, is simply immortal. The "variation" here introduced is to have another old friend of the family perform two marriage ceremonies which only he and the audience know are faked. Then comes the excruciating suspense while pajamas are unpacked and coverlets turned down. Whoso remembers a strip called The Marriage Circle has known this picture in a previous and superior incarnation. When U. S. counter-jumpers try to be Europeans, not even...
Although it is not the custom of The Vagabond to mention events so far ahead, he thought that it would be well to tell his readers that Beethoven's Missa Solemnis will be performed on Sunday, March 25, at Symphony Hall as well as the already announced presentation on the preceding Tuesday. Vagabonds desiring to hear this would do well to procure their accommodations early...