Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parity agreed to with Britain at Washington in 1922, and would fall farther short if replacements were not soon authorized. He showed how auxiliaries, which are all that the new program called for, are the "eyes" of the Battle Fleet, whose size is fixed. He tried to tell the country that it spends as much on candy in one year as the Navy wants to spend in nine years to make the world safe for candy-eaters. He pointed at the billions spent in U. S. beauty parlors. He invoked ancestors. He hailed posterity...
...very anxious to get this appointment [Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County]. You go into the room of your private secretary, and when you return there will be $10,000 in the drawer of your desk. No one will know about it. You can call Remy over and tell him you changed your mind...
...those who have learned to take their Lindsey straight, President Frank barred Mrs. Russell. But since a touch of nature now makes the whole world read, where it once merely left the room, the conviction has grown that it was unfair not to give Mrs. Russell her chance to tell...
...Instead of believing everything their ministers and Sunday School teachers tell them, as they did when children, they now believe everything their Biology professors tell them." So declared Dean Sperry of the Divinity School, with reference to college undergraduates, at a religious conference meeting in Princeton Sunday...
...entrance to Parliament lay through the drawing rooms." Dizzy saw to it he became the fashion. "It turned out I had a very fine leg, which I never knew before." So sought after was he, so gay and dandified, that benign Lord Melbourne was moved to inquire: "Well now, tell me,what do you want to be?"?"I want to be Prime Minister."?"No, no," Lord Melbourne replied with a sigh...