Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news placards, and your bawling news boys with their "read all about it" trumpet call, really do announce those headlines to everyone within earshot. Our people just yell vaguely and you can never make out what they are saying, but this particular news placard of the Evening Standard just said "Peace Threat." In fact, having already between us killed about 100,000 people, the highly civilized countries of Europe are suddenly threatened with Peace. That such a prospect should be described as a disaster is some small indication of the state of mind to which we are all degenerating...
...that every day we can see these "silver fish" swimming into the clouds: because as the clouds approach -a thing you are not normally conscious of - these balloons appear to swim into them. The latest crack, which I expect you already know, is about the dear old lady who said "The Germans can't frighten me, sitting up there in those balloons." . . . The most succulent rumor I heard the other day was that seven U-boats had given themselves up and were landed on the beach at Weymouth. Why on the beach, God knows ! If they had given themselves...
There was no doubt about the riding, said the reporter; question was, was he coming or going? The President just laughed...
...defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether or not he favored scaling down the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American debts. Reason: the inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted flesh-creepers in a radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said he: "In and out of Congress we have heard orators and commentators and others beating their breasts and proclaiming against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst fakes in current history...
Football holidays are always given when the Yale game is played in New Haven Phelps explained, but the only evidences of official soft-heartedness for tomorrow are that no important examinations are scheduled. Exams galore on Monday morning will face these returning from Princeton, Phelps said, one of the most important being History...