Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to Mr. Townsend's letter in TIME for August 6, I should like to tell the story as I have always heard it-which is that when Mr. Wanamaker was a young man some old friend lent him a certain sum of money to help him start in business on condition that no playing cards should ever be sold in his store...
Sirs: I have received and have read through with a great deal of pleasure the three books which I ordered from TIME on the recommendation of your Mr. Ben Boswell. Will you please tell me more about this gentleman? My tastes and his seem to be very similar, and my curiosity is aroused. May I ask his age, if that is not too personal. And is he a descendant of the great James Boswell, the disciple of Dr. Samuel Johnson? When my brother and I are in New York, next November, I would like Mr. Boswell to come and dine...
...shook hands with everyone. It was found that he was the oldest foreign born inhabitant of Cook County; he had been brought there by his parents when he was ten months old. He had a trombone with him which he played at frequent intervals. He seemed eager to tell everyone about the old days when he was a young man and when Chicago was a young city. Said Richard Evans: "I knew Chicago before it had a railroad, a paved street, a trolley car, or a telephone...
Engaged. Charles Rumford Walker, 35, author (Steel, Bread & Fire) ; to Adelaide Haley George, 22, actress (You Never Can Tell) of Denver...
...tragic tale of a rat named Grip, who could not make up his mind, was a piece of red hot news last week. William Cabell Greet, professor of Phonetics and the History of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, assembled seven men from scattered parts of the U.S. to tell the tale of Grip to wax discs in a recording studio of the Victor Talking Machine Co. The idea: to preserve for posterity accurate specimens of U. S. dialects...