Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morale of the Chinese troops continued excellent, but Shanghai's foreign military observers had begun to speak of a probable Chinese G. H. Q. decision to evacuate the whole Shanghai peninsula and this week the evacuation began while jubilant Japanese pounced without resistance upon sectors which for three months have been bitterly contested. The chief technical advisers of the Chinese G. H. Q. are German officers who during the World War served under Ludendorff and Hindenburg. Last week Colonel E. Ott, Military Attache of the German Embassy at Tokyo, had come to Shanghai and was perspiringly explaining to vexed...
...While many are talking of a Rebel victory others speak of a 'truce...
Odets' characters are most forceful when they speak the salty idiom of the street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent...
...prove that civilization was a failure, he was living, dressed in bearskins, in a cave adjacent to his 40-room house. By the time Goliath signed the power of attorney on a piece of hide, Toni and Henry were in love. Toni knew that her family would never speak to her again unless she was married in church - so she and Henry went to a justice of the peace...
Professor John H. Williams, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will be the guest of honor this evening at the Adams House weekly dinner. After dinner he will speak in the upper Common Room on present business conditions...