Word: hinting
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...still proceeding as if peace were a thing of the future. Congress decided some time ago that an army of 280,000 was the maximum required for normal times; it provided for funds to pay only 175,000 of this number. Mr. Baker, instead of taking the hint, has indulged in a costly recruiting campaign which has brought the army up to 228,000 men. The bill for this action was $40,000,000 and how much more will be required to pay the extra men is not known...
...some repetition, and, perhaps, at times some tedium for the reader. Of course an excursion into the advertising pages of the model offers the jaded Lampoon contributor one more field for jesting, but at last he must fall tamely back to invent a new contrivance or a new "helpful hint," which, however painstaking in its working up, suffers from close association with too many of its kind. Such are the penalties of "special numbers" except where the subject lends itself more easily to varied treatment. That the number, in spite of its handicaps, proves so entertaining, testifies highly...
...dialogue is simple and very natural; Mr. Furness has refrained from letting Shakespere too often quote from his own works. Altogether the play is delightful and charming in spirit. And in the speech, "My lines were meant to be sounded forth upon the stage!" there is a timely hint for critics...
...knows punctuation but he can never have heard of good manners or of common decency, although he is careful to put an exclamation point alongside every sentence in which there is any hint that human beings are not ordinarily produced by parthogenesis...
After all the record of the University, as regards freedom of thought, has not been so bad. In the days when Professors Francke and Munsterburg sought to justify the German Imperial Government, no one prevented them from saying what they pleased. At the first hint from anywhere that "They should be shut up," the CRIMSON or the Illustrated would reply with a passionate appeal for free speech. They were not "shut up" and the University's mind remained unpoisoned...