Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Davis appeared, to tell about Hawaii's forts and sesquicentennial celebration. The Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway, as an outlet for Midland farm produce, was also on the Secretary's mind. He issued a statement in behalf of the St. Lawrence River route as against the Mohawk Valley-Hudson River route...
...aimed at by an individual or a political organization can justify the secret or open employment of corrupt or otherwise dishonorable means. The spokesman of a party has the duty to tell the whole truth, and is justified in urging conclusions which his conscience approves, however distasteful or harmful they may be to the opposition. He proves himself unworthy if he knowingly accepts advantage from falsehood, even though not uttered or inspired by himself...
...lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king and you big mans stop we trade, and s'pose dat true, what we do? ... We law is, s'pose some of we child go bad and we no can sell 'em, we father must kill dem own child. And s'pose trade...
Mayor Gillis announced that he would run for Governor of Massachusetts. He started a newspaper called Bossyisms. Said he: "What a sleigh ride! Boy, oh boy, what a hooking! . . . I'll turn the home town inside out! It would take me fifty years to tell all I know about some people...
...informed that he was dead and that before his death he had written a series of letters one of which she would receive every year on her birthday. Last week, Jane Gray received the first of these letters. Newsgatherers wished to know its contents but Jane Gray refused to tell them. Whatever the letter said, it caused her to smile last week, on her eleventh birthday, as she read...