Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LABOR UNIONISM CONTINUED TO SUPPRESS NEWS UNQUOTE STOP WHILE AMBIGUOUS THIS EVIDENTLY WAS MEANT TO AND WOULD BE READ AS INCLUDING ALL NEWSPAPERS STOP LOS ANGELES RECORD MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL SIX ENGLISH DAILIES HAS NEVER BEEN QUOTE FOE OF LABOR UNIONS UNQUOTE AS ANY LABOR LEADER CAN TELL YOU STOP LIKEWISE IT HAS NOT SUPPRESSED NEWS OF EQUITY STRUGGLE BUT HAS FULLY PROMINENTLY AND FEARLESSLY PRESENTED NEWS OF BOTH SIDES STOP ASK FRANK GILMORE AND WILL HAYS STOP...
...condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison...
...Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also...
...gave up what you never could have gotten anyway ! " shouted back Chancellor Snowden. "No reply has been made to my arguments. . . . But if you have started talking of sacrifices I will tell you of sacrifices! . . . Great Britain has a War debt now more than twice the War debt of any other nation...
...Because audiences, made critical by the increasing efficiency of the sound device, can always tell when the star player moves his or her lips while an unseen person does the singing, officials of Warner and First National advised their studios last week to allow no more doubling...