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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Andre Honnorat of France, to tell President Coolidge about the Cite Universitaire foundation in Paris, to which many countries, including the U. S., have been invited to contribute dormitories for their nationals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...ineffectual attempt to implicate Al Smith in the mesh, at the same time maintaining that none of the guilty ones are in the party at present and that they are not liable for the sins of their predecessors. But the genie in the bottle has escaped, and none can tell how large he may grow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GENIE IN THE OIL-CAN | 3/22/1928 | See Source »

Mayor: "Oh, I'm not going to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Walker | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...always been taken for granted by most people that the things they tell their confessors are twice-sealed secrets. Southern newspapers commented on the actions of the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Squealer | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Smart Set. William Haines is always the play boy, the smart aleck-sometimes in baseball uniform (Slide, Kelly, Slide), sometimes in football paddings (Brown of Harvard), sometimes in the pants of a leather neck (Tell It To the Marines) or even dressed as a cadet (West Point). This time he is a polo grandstand player. Here Actor Haines, rich man's son. flirts with Constance Howard, presses undesired kisses on her, steals her slippers at a dance, throws his shoes in the soup at a Park Avenue dinner party, salts and eats the carnations. None the less, this objectionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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