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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rainbow bending in the sky, Bedecked with sundry hues, Is like the seat of God on high And seems to tell the news That as thereby he promised To drown the world no more So by the blood which Christ hath shed. He will our health restore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Morrow! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...nights in his cave were sometimes so cold the snakes would creep to him for warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything like that. "Because I have put away the world," he said. "And now I will still know that no one is thinking about me, that I am here all alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The poetry, of course, is in the music rather than the anecdote. This poetry is lost, but the silent Meistersinger moves with a light-footedness impossible in grand opera. Clearly these capable German actors like their. material and understand it. They play the old roles slyly, fast and broadly -the whimsical Hans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the Leviathan on her last eastern trip, clapped into Bargate Prison for two and one-half days, and shipped back again on the Leviathan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Phoned In | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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