Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant could arrive; at Cold Harbor where steady artillery hammering failed utterly against tall breastworks, Lee baited Grant, taunted him, hurt him. Petersburg saw Lee defending the Danville railway, source of Confederate supplies, and losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms at Appomattox...
When Governor Fuller heard about it, he explained to Representative Treadway: "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters. I must tell him to restrain his boyish enthusiasm...
...come many able men. Until last week Henry Summers, 23, was not counted among them. Even when the news reached St. Louis from Kansas City, housewives who had known Henry Summers since he wore rompers looked at each other in amazement. "Why, that Summers boy! Do you mean to tell me-you mean to say that young-I always thought he was a-." On their lips they checked the word "loafer" sometimes applied to Henry Summers, who in St. Louis was often seen dallying in an alley. But success in an alley deserved no opprobrium. Henry Summers...
...dressed, ate it with his friends. Last week he was called before Police Magistrate Homer Byrd, who told him: "I have been your friend for years. I did not want to try this case. . . . You insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot a tame deer at all is anything but sportsmanship. And no sportsman would shoot a roe if he knew...
...blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes are back...