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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Curtis: "Oh, you Democrats. . . . Tell us about Tammany . . . greatest robbing machine in history! But I would not have referred to that if you had not been mean enough to ask that question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...cannot," said Sir William with a wry smile, "I cannot help feeling rather for the father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children, when the nurse comes downstairs from his wife's room and says, 'I am sorry to tell you it is twins.' I am afraid the nurse would have to ring up the police and tell them of the new crime that had been committed.* "Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prop for Baldwin | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Smart folk motoring down to Biarritz, at the close of Deauville's "fortnight," had two droll little incidents to tell about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deauville Drolleries | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Stockbridge colonists like to tell the story of their new playhouse, where last week was held the 20th annual Stockbridge Art Exhibit. Twenty years ago, when Edward L. Morse, son of Telegrapher Samuel F. B. Morse, began the tradition of Stockbridge art exhibits, it was natural that he stepped-across the street from his own "White Lodge" to the Casino which stood opposite. Like all colonists, he was proud of the Casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What They Liked | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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