Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...aimed at making "the common Finn a gentleman" in time for the Olympic Games in 1952. In addition, Finland has decided on an anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy since the Christmas holidays letting out seams: "About 90% of my customers have gotten fatter in the last two years. I can only remember one who has gotten thinner, and he was a man returning from his honeymoon...
...been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarians could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin "Review" furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the "Review," "the president of a neighboring college was in town over night, the guest of prominent citizens. He saw the large number of people that were upon the streets and inquired how large a police force the town...
...TIME'S Washington staff, put them together for the early Christmas closing. TIME would be on the newsstands the following Thursday, and the editors fully expected to see their story appear in the newspapers in the interval. But it didn't; only one paper had a hint of it, and that not until Thursday...
...Quarry. At 10:15 every morning, carrying a rolled-up umbrella, wearing rubbers if there is a hint of rain, punctual Alger Hiss, with his wife, climbs the long front steps of Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors, he rides up to the 13th floor. Reporters, long since accustomed to his constant, faintly smiling presence, discuss him calmly within his hearing-in the elevator, in the corridor outside the courtroom, in Andre's restaurant near the old World Building. There the Hisses also go for lunch; the management...
...broad hint by the mother of lush, brunette Café Singer Gigi Durston that her daughter would marry Elliott Roosevelt was called "premature" by Television Actress Faye Emerson, who pointed out that she and Elliott are still married. Said Faye: "I'm not put out, but I just like to announce my own divorces...