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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell me what to do with my 22-year old son?" was the request in the dulcet tones of a fond but foolish mother. He is very mischievous and misbehaved, and I simply can't do a thing with him. Do you think it a good idea to put him on a boat under a stern old sea captain all summer and not permit him to land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Do You Want A Body?" Stumps University 7600 Oracle--Another Voice Asks Chinese Version of "How's Your Oil?" | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...your oil?' in Chinese?" Presented difficulties and the Information Desk just couldn't tell an old man with whom he could converse in Dutch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Do You Want A Body?" Stumps University 7600 Oracle--Another Voice Asks Chinese Version of "How's Your Oil?" | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...American College of Surgeons, meeting in Washington last week, grew so indignant about Prohibition,* that they delayed for a day listening to Dr. Charles Horace Mayo tell how to stave off death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Men | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...daughter is infatuated with a Latin-American diplomat who combines the qualities of a grandee and a, waiter. She is quite "over" Tony. When they reach Cherbourg, all she wants is revenge. But Tony does not no tice her proud posturing. His eyes are upon Shirley. He has to tell Shirley about David. David, back in New York where she might just as well have stayed with him, is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Come live with me and my two daughters, Peaches! (Nisi nihil mortus) I'll renta car and tell reporters That where we go, they shall escort...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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