Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Galleryman George H. Ainslie: "Some will condemn it on the ground that it is undraped . . . that is unessential criticism . . . only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...Edison Co. pursued Lawrence F. Jones! First they shut off his power, but his store remained well lighted. The Edison Co. appealed to the Department of Water, Gas and Electricity, supposing that Lawrence Jones was stealing current to illuminate his store. Though his store remained lighted, no one could tell where he got the current. At last, the Brooklyn Edison Co. had Lawrence Jones arrested. He proved himself innocent of theft and went...
Delicately sentimental like all of Miss Abbott's stories they are; gay little love stories strung upon the warm thread of the Christmas feeling, actually quite unlikely, yet fundamentally quite possible, just like fairy tales or Christmas itself. They tell of what never will happen, but what one feels might and ought...
...Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...
...heard Bill Nye tell stories and Frank Harris converse. Eugene Debs, Eugene Field, the late La Follette, James Whitcomb Riley, O. Henry, Helen Keller and numerous newsboys, janitors, cabbies, children were or are among his acquaintances...