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Word: outtalk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talked too much. He told the President all about what I was about to tell him about my world tour. Pat and Bernard Shaw are the only two people who can outtalk me. I had the President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...weather gets warm are being trained by the Harvard Socialist Club. Men and women from colleges in Boston and the vicinity are being tutored in the style that will enable them to shout down all muttered objections at the meetings they intend to address later. The plan to outtalk the balky Boston police who hitherto have thwarted the cause of honest labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialist Club Trains Speakers to Defy Police at Stump Gatherings--History of Harvard Socialism to Appear Soon | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

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