Word: told
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Mary Christmas of Racine, Wis. announced she was tired of having store clerks, when they asked her name and she told them, say: "The same...
Commented The Dartmouth (daily): ". . . The situation perplexes us. [But] we still cling to another illusion as concerning athletics in Britain. We still believe that in spite of these terrific schedules that there is a sense of proportion about them maintained. We recall a story told of [Runner] Abrams [Harold M. Abrahams] who was competing at the British Olympic trials. He subsequently won his events at the Games. He had just won the finals in the 220 and was to run in the finals 440 in 15 minutes. With a sweater thrown around his shoulders, he was lolling about the track...
...printed page remains more real than any figure of flesh & blood concocted in his image, and for this reason there are people who will cavil at Paramount's cinema of him, or go with misgivings into a theatre to see him played, afraid that lies will be told about someone they know. Yet no lies are told in this picture. You can accept Jackie Coogan, you can accept the treatment which does all for the story that any cinema could do in the limits of program time-present its surface, the long lazy days and river night-falls...
...Boys, we've just hung up a new record," Governor Bilbo had told newsmen. "We've bounced three college presidents and made three new ones in the record time of two hours. And that's just the beginning of what's going to happen." Presidents bounced by the Bilboard of Trustees (composed of two dentists, three lawyers, a physician, a bank cashier, controlling all but State Teachers College) were Chancellor Alfred E. Hume of the University, Buz M. Walker of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Nellie Kiern of the Women's College.* New heads appointed...
...smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound...