Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While I know you get many letters, telling you how good TIME is, if you are like ourselves, who appreciate being told that we have the best gelatine in the world, then I can tell you how much real pleasure and information I get from reading your magazine...
...President proclaimed the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 7 as War Risk Week-a time when all good citizens should tell World War veterans that they have only until July 2, 1927, to reinstate lapsed war risk insurance...
...Jefferson County, Tenn., one W. B. Johnson, prosperous farmer, once a sheriff, was walking along a lane with a revolver in his pocket. Just why he was carrying a revolver no one, afterward, could tell, or why, meeting an old woman and her daughter in the lane, he began to quarrel with them. Mr. Johnson, some said, had had a love affair with the daughter. He ended the conversation by shooting each woman in the mouth. They fell dead. He ran to his home, barricaded door and window. He had another revolver in the house and 150 rounds of ammunition...
When excitement at Washington was at its apogee, last week, over the Nicaraguan situation (See p. 8) a sarcastic hope was voiced by Senator Reed (see above) that the President would not express himself concerning Nicaragua and Mexico exclusively through "The Spokesman of the White House," but would tell Congress unequivocally what was in his mind. After letting the Senators fulminate for a few days longer President Coolidge granted their wish. He caused to be read to the House and Senate a message which repeated over his signature almost exactly what he had told the press for weeks...
...probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while, not a big war with a bunch of American cruisers, but a little war with knives and pawn shop pistols! No wonder they get sore at having to tell their family secrets to the marines...