Word: hints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...
...Maestri's profits from his company, one of the violators, amounted to $1,157,161. But, John Rogge regretfully added, there was nothing the U. S. could do about it; any violations were of State laws. About all that Prosecutor Rogge could do was to drop a broad hint to Louisiana's next Attorney General to put lonesome Mr. Maestri with Mr. Maestri's friends...
Except for the fact that Big Steel's ore subsidiary had never, except as an accommodation, sold ore to others, except for the hint that the biggest U. S. ore producer was going to compete with the others who have had the market to themselves, except for these things, the Oliver advertisement would hardly have attracted any notice. The notice it did attract was heightened by the additional report that its first sale was breaking the "inflexible" price...
...transatlantic Clipper, began putting it through a thoroughgoing examination. When the Clipper took off for the Azores 24 hours later, more than a ton of mail was still in the hands of the censors. All Secretary of State Cordell Hull could think of to do about this was to hint that the Clippers might stop calling at Bermuda, fly directly from the U. S. to the Azores, as they did before war broke...