Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was one fact about Heflin you forgot to mention, however, namely his ability to tell colored stories. As Will Rogers says: If the Senator, instead of spouting about Al Smith and the Catholics, would confine himself to telling colored stories, he would then be really doing something worthwhile...
...here to tell you what I have heard!" he boomed. "... I am not going to tell you what I have heard or any hearsay testimony...
...interior of Africa the fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...
...Fifth Act. Again Nina is pregnant. Though terribly in love with each other Nina and new-father Darrell are afraid to tell Sam because the divorce would smash him utterly; particularly if he learns of his family insanity. Sam is told he is to be a father. Darrell departs...
...tell you the best story I ever heard, even if it is no me. This chap was one of those who think it the thing to go a-visiting the instructor, making throaty suggestions about the mark he has received. I remembered the fellow from midyears. I therefore told him, when he asked for my office house, that on such a point as this he must see the professor, who would, I knew, send him back to me. I knew, by the way, that the professor was already on his way for a sabbatical study of Chinese temples...