Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...reporters. He won fame of the sort that comes to a No. 1 newsman; but not many outside his profession and the readers of the Tribune and Liberty knew a year and a half ago who Floyd Gibbons was. Then he went into radio broadcasting. Last week, famed Fastest Talker Floyd Gibbons returned to newspaper work as a circulation drawing-card. His column, "Floyd Gibbons Speaking?" began daily appearances in 42 newspapers served by famous Features Syndicate...
What has neverbeen heard before was the "breezy" backtalk which the Mother Country gave her grown-up brood of Dominions last week, as though she were beginning at last to think of herself as only a country too. Back-talker: the Secretary of State for the Dominions, the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas. At an Imperial Conference luncheon he said breezily...
...doer, not a talker," he snapped. "In the words of the great Lord Nelson Peru expects 'every man to do his duty...
...White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started to let his beard grow; thereafter to the end of his life only checked it from time...
...wise old man. Not all his story was simple; when Linderman had difficulty in following the complications of the ancient tobacco-seed ceremony, Plenty-coups repeated the explanation twice, then said: "Ho! There is Something here! Something that does not wish you to understand. Do not try, Sign-Talker. Let it alone...