Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important blocks to the carrying out of liquor prevention enforcement is the attitude of the press. If the majority of the newspapers should tell the truth, the attitude of a great proportion of the people would be greatly changed. If more sheets such as the Christian Science Monitor and a few others should stick to facts, this problem could be far more successfully attacked...
...invitation to France, Italy and Japan to discuss at London the reduction of all fleets so that the U. S.-British level of potency may be as low as possible. Reporter Hoover. On Sunday the President telephoned in to Washington (see p. 13) and told his secretary to tell the world that the Five-Power Parley invitations would go out at once. Conference date: January 20. Orator MacDonald. On Monday, the Prime Minister addressed the Senate. Aside from his keynotes (see above), his gist was this: "Gratifying progress has been made and the conversations are continuing." His mood was this...
Thirty-seven Army players substituted for each other so fast you couldn't tell who was in, but obviously Gettysburg was out, in spite of its one touchdown, Army 33, Gettysburg...
There was not much out of the ordinary in the story Liberty printed. No sad tale of Miss Oelrichs' life did it tell. Instead, it purported to be her opinion of the state of "desperation" in which the modern society girl finds herself. "I have become convinced," the story went, "that if you took equal numbers of rich girls and of others in moderate circumstances, you would find among the latter infinitely more contentment, greater freedom, and truer happiness. . . . 'Are you happy?' I have asked so many well born and rich girls I know. Their answer...
...corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night they trampled the marshes and woods while up in a tree crouched Johnny. In the morning he came down to face his fate. The searchers had found a scarcecrow...