Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record. . . . A most unfortunate impression was created when a Laborite asked "Does corruption exist at Scotland Yard?" and Sir William Joynson-Hicks triumphantly and almost airily replied: "I think not. People tell me stories of that sort from time to time, but they won't hold water...
...horse races were lacking. There was none of the suave enjoyment of a polo or lawn tennis crowd. The people at the IXth Olympiad resembled those who attend high school basketball games, minor league baseball games, county fairs, circus side shows, early season football games. Many of them can tell you, in split seconds, all the world's records that have been made during the last ten years. No Olympics are complete without a few preliminary squawks. Perhaps the reason is that, while the Olympics are supposed to be the essence of amateurism, there is always a suspicion that...
...wanted to organize a good "racket," with department stores as your particular victims, you might work it out this way: Send Miss T - to New York or Chicago or Philadelphia, $300 in her pocketbook. Tell her to pick the name of some reputable citizen from the telephone book, then start an account in her name at a local bank, using the good check as a first deposit. This done, she could go shopping. For each article she buys, she gives a check, double the purchase price, asking for the balance in cash. Cautious department stores do not accept checks without...
...Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs...
...bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion by the gay brook for which the child was named...