Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before, I tell you, before. That'll get -em going and make it unanimous...
...After, I tell you, afterwards. If we pass 'em out before they'll call it bribery...
...press calls me 'Potentate' and 'Mystery Man' . . . titles to which, I hasten to tell you, I have no right...
...There are many Americans richer than I. Believe me! Believe me! And need I tell you that I have brought neither automobiles, which would have been a real aberration, your automobiles being of public notoriety, holding first place in the world's production, nor airplanes, yours, as well as your aviators, showing incessant proof of their exceptional value...
...sometimes startlingly successful effort to tell about the complicated agonies that go on inside of a character called Him and a girl called Me. When the focus on this effort is lessened, people on the stage sing "Frankie and Johnny" with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most blatant appearance on the Manhattan stage; three old ladies called "weirds" talk about a pet hippopotamus, saying "It's toasted but it died." On the whole, him is an interesting, well acted and ambitious failure. Author e. e. cummings (his own lower cases) is also the author of a bitter and unwholesome...