Word: talk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cannot Reader Owen think of anything better to talk to Carmen Miranda about...
...believes he has uncovered a terrific scandal in the family. Said he rudely: Why, the place is full of Communists. Liberals hush-hushed, feared a Red-hunt, kept saying Martin Dies had made a mistake-he should be after Fascists, not Communists. But when the Dies Committee began to talk about U. S. youth, found youth organizations mixed up with evil companions, hinted that youth had been out all night with the Reds, could no longer tell right from Red, Mrs. Roosevelt rushed to youth's defense like an outraged mother hen defending her chick's good name...
...summoned the barons to confer on an island in the Thames between Staines and Windsor. On one bank camped King John; on the other side the barons set their pavilions on a marshy flat known as Runnymede. In one day's talk the points at issue were discussed, agreed on, signed. In the afternoon of June 15, 1215, King John, who could not write, set the royal seal four times to four copies of the Magna Charta...
...telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are busy at home weaving nets for artillery camouflage. The special naval rank of "Skipper" is accorded their captains, and when they talk with His Majesty's officers they don't bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work it is they do, having a mine-sweeping fleet of its own. Publicly discovered last week was the fact that...
...than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They are for the most part real, and for the most part funny...