Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge had written to British Ambassador Houghton: "I need not tell you how much I shall feel the loss of your services" (TIME, Nov. 12). But that it seemed did not mean that the President accepted the Ambassador's resignation. He was merely acknowledging its receipt. Last week, having failed of election to the Senate from New York and conferred with the President at the White House, Ambassador Houghton announced that he was returning to the Court of St. James...
...Well, I may see you in Georgia. I can't tell where I'll be. . I'm just going around in the car, wherever I feel like...
Another utterance he made last week seemed not without political felicity, not a bad starter towards girding up his party nationally against 1932. When the Smith returns were in, he telegraphed to National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia: "Please tell the people of Georgia, my other State, that I am proud of the splendid way in which they have demonstrated their loyalty to the Democracy...
Crashing Through. This is one of those plays which tell how the other half lives, the other half in this case being the Pooles, a Nieuw Amsterdam-bound old family who are proud of family portraits, prouder still of family history or so much of it as has not been written in the past decade. Consuelo Poole (Rose Hobart) has a suppressed desire for a riveter who pumps bolts into the skeleton of a growing building near the Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned...
Extended across the advertisement was the gigantic headline: IS THIS GOOD AMERICANISM? GET THE FACTS-LEARN THE TRUTH. It was difficult to tell at first glance whether the advertisement was pro-or anti-Catholic. Caught eyes read on. The explanation: "Many sections of our country, particularly where there are few Catholics, are being flooded with millions and millions of pieces of literature of the type exhibited here. . . .' Then there were quotations from the U. S. Constitution, William Jennings Bryan, President Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt on the subject of religious liberty. The entire advertisement was the work...