Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Re: "Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, will lecture at the Harvard Union tomorrow high at 7 o'clock on the topic "From Alpine Snows to Vesuvian Lava." The address, which will tell in part of the Geology Summer School's trip in 1928, will be open to Union members only. L. T. Grimm '29, vice-president of the Union, will introduce Professor Mather...
Similarly the newly collected cuts from the "Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein. "The Death of the Virgin" by Rembrandt, and works by Abraham Bosse tell much about the manner of life of people in the seventeenth century. Prints by Boucher and Fragonnard, flower designs for wall-paper and textiles after Pillemont, and a reproduction of Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mede" are illustrative of the decorative arts in the eighteenth century...
...taxied away, halting near a great mudpuddle. When the crowd approached again, he raced his motor sharply. In doing so he splashed dirty water over newsgatherers, photographers, admiring women. Said the Washington Daily News, in an editorial captioned "Lindbergh Splashes Mud on Himself": 'We'd like to tell the boy where he gets off but we doubt if it would serve any good purpose. . . . We would like ... to prepare him for the inevitable day when his popularity will have turned to unpopularity. . . . People with warts on their faces learn to bear their crosses bravely. People who become popular...
...America to see what's at the bottom of all this 'Prosperity' of yours." said the General Director last week in his suite at Manhattan's Ambassador. "Take bathrooms for instance. Extr'ord'nary how little your hotel men spend on bathrooms! They tell me one really can't pay over $1,500 in New York for a bathroom with the finest standard fittings. Now in London what do you suppose we have to pay? Not less than ?1,000, or almost 5,000 of your dollars!" Though obviously keen to plunge into...