Word: tells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmie speaking" was the reply . . . and went on, "I say Kate-have you read your Times yet?" "No, I haven't-why?" "The news looks bad-Russia and Germany have signed a pact. I'm leaving here today and getting back home. It looks bad I tell you and I want to see my uniform is alright." "Well give me a ring before you do go to say 'Goodbye.' " "Alright, Kate-Goodbye." Sank back in my bed and that dull thud, thud in the head overtook me, the thud of wondering, imagining and trying...
...Gompers could speak from the grave, he undoubtedly would tell his heirs in U. S. Labor to get shut of the Wagner Act, of Federal Wage and Hour regulation, of all dependence upon courts, politics and politicians. Until he died in 1924, the founding father of the American Federation of Labor preached that unions should trust first & last in their own economic might, never in transitory laws and governments...
...showing a"net operating surplus of $10,000,000" for the last fiscal year, praised his "humane and efficient leadership," sat down to a feed. They ate up, among other things, 25 gallons of olives, 1,800 breasts of capons. Then they settled back to hear their boss tell them that "the U. S. Post Office and its people constitute the greatest public service in existence today...
...Only the U. S." Then Herr Hitler (through Dr. Dietrich) tried again one of his offside diplomatic plays. If the U. S. would only tell Britain it would not support her in a war unless she first tried to settle the issues at a conference table, the war would be ended. Dr. Dietrich felt sure that Herr Hitler would delay giving the command to start firing on a big scale until President Roosevelt could indicate his willingness to mediate. Otherwise, said Dr. Dietrich, there would ensue the "most gruesome blood bath in history." In Washington President Roosevelt...
...last winter Dr. John Henry McLeod of Washington bent over an eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons...