Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussing the issues of the campaign because he considers the average voter a boob." In the Bronx, he said: "This anti-Catholic crusade may or may not be serious so far as Smith's election is concerned, but it is vitally serious itself. . " . Once started, no man can tell its end. Remember that intolerance breeds intolerance, just as hate breeds hate and invites revenge. History shows that it is perhaps the most insidious and uncontrollable emotion that can sweep people off their feet...
...Evidently the Digest ballots sent out to the voters in New York City have been returned by Republicans much more generally than by Democrats. Apparently the same thing has happened in other close states, but to what extent the poll overestimates the strength of the Republicans no one can tell...
...self-supporting and must give it a definite title as an indicator to the prospective listener of what it is to be about. Two groups of lecturers are this of necessity excluded from mention; those whose lectures are of real value only if attended consecutively and those who cannot tell the titles of their lectures in advance. As representative of the point of view of this latter group, the Vagabond quotes from a letter in his files from one of the most distinguished professors at Harvard...
...time Parson Faunce confessed that, as a sophomore lad, his roommate had told him a bawdy story. It so poisoned his mind that (even after years of speckless living) its smutty ghost soared before him. Students were interested, and speculated on the story. No one asked President Faunce to tell...
Like the lives of many religious leaders -Moses, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy-her biography is spotted with lacunae. She deliberately made them. She would never tell her age (it was about 87), nor her girlish life, nor permit her elderly photograph be taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door...