Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that when you made out your examination paper, with the express and unmitigated purpose of flunking me out of college, I did not recognize your intention. Lay not that Battering unction to they soul. Bloody, but unbowed. I could, except for my pride . . . on yet. I have my pride . . . tell you the story of my childhood. You would pity me then. It would rate an A. My father hit me on the head with a paper-weight, one summer by the sea, bluer than a vast, incalculable blue book, gleaming in the sun. Beauty. But there is no need...
...literary lions, are keeping, the projected revellers tightly strapped to the stake. The materials for Bacchanalia cannot be obtained in sufficient amount, and the police would not allow Saturnalia. Before the destruction finally comes, then, the authorities must adopt a more liberal attitude toward orgies. Suetonius himself could not tell a good story on Pickwick Pale alone...
...want to tell you people that the underworld is wonderfully organized. . . . It is so powerful that if my identity were known as I stand here, a bomb might be pitched at my feet...
...post after only eight months tenure. Similar officers in other states already knew the reason. Onetime Pardoner Bridges is a young lawyer of Charlotte, N. C. He has sensibilities. His reason: "I took the job for experience. I've had enough. The mental agony that follows having to tell condemned men there is no hope for them, is too much. I find it difficult to sleep on nights immediately preceding a scheduled electrocution, and the thought of a man approaching death is torture...
True and yet with the force of a legend is the story of how blunt General Groener dared to tell Wilhelm II., in the last days of the war, that the Emperor ought to go in person into the battle areas and either rally his troops for a last effort or die in the attempt, "fighting as would become Your Majesty...