Word: tells
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...made a careful study of the history of Boston, will speak on "Poe's Birth and his Parentage." "The Untrustworthy Memorialists of Poe" will be the subject of a speech by Mr. W. Lanier Washington, and Mr. William Fearing Gill, author of a Life of Poe, will tell of "Curious Coincidences, and Personal Reminiscences of Near Friends of Poe." The meeting will be open to the public and all men interested in the writings of Poe are especially invited to attend...
...Washington. While fighting with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he was wounded in the chest. Despite this wound he charged a village held by sharp-shooters at the head of his troop, receiving a fatal wound in the neck. General Sheridan said of Colonel Lowell "I never had to tell Colonel Lowell what to do. He had always seen it and done it before I told...
Rutherford B. Hayes was a quiet, unobtrusive man, who has been greatly misunderstood. While President Garfield was dying at Elberon, Mr. Wise went to Mr. Arthur's house to tell him of the President's condition. He was a man of great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress...
...will be a great game, the greatest of the year. Who can tell whether a Yale team which has only recently found itself can rise to the occasion and gain victory from a Harvard team whose progress has been consistent, steady and rightly timed to meet occasions as they appeared? Who can tell whether Yale strategic ability, the result of long and constant application, can cope with Harvard's newly applied organization of football intelligence and come out the victor...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell und Demetrius." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...