Word: speak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
...affection for great apes two years ago alienated her doctor-husband-a stomach specialist sometimes taken for a veterinarian because his home was also his wife's menagerie. When she announced she had trained a chimpanzee to talk, she was invited by Sanka Coffee to have it speak on their We, the People radio program. At the broadcast, female chimpanzee Susan, proud in a man's grey business suit and huge napping basketball shoes, sat by in a chair munching grapes, while Mrs. Lintz told what apes eat, why they beat their chests. Then she turned to Susan...
Said Castang after the chat: "I didn't do very well. I don't know those apes, you know, and it's hard even to speak to a man to whom you've never been introduced...
...total of 66 attorneys. In succeeding weeks, marching in twos and vigilantly guarded, the twelve jurymen and two alternates were occasionally taken out to exercise on the shores of Lake Mendota. For Christmas they had a tree in the juryroom and as a special favor they were allowed to speak to their families. Their mail was carefully censored. They were not allowed to see The Life of Emile Zola because of the courtroom scenes. But in 16 weeks they had gained a total...
...York speakeasies and night clubs, has worked in swanky London hotels, in rowdy pubs. But apparently he paid as little attention to the guests as they paid to him. As a ship's steward his main concern was with bootlegging and his amusements on shore. As a speak-easy and night-club waiter he was mostly interested in the gangster clientele, one of whom he saw shot down one night...