Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girl" although she had never met or posed for that artist. Playing on Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable...
...when, one day, he "released the monster just as a pair of newlyweds came along in a canoe. With one glance at the vision and utterly ignoring his bride, the young man leaped into the lake, struck out for shore. . . . When he sought to make up . . . she refused to speak...
Herbert Evison, supervisor of State Park Emergency Conservation Work under the National Park Service, will speak on "State Recreation Systems" Saturday at 12 o'clock at the first of two lectures before the School of City Planning in Robinson Annex. Next Wednesday Earle S. Draper, TVA director, will speak...
...Professor Pereda (TIME, April 9) was "too weak to speak" at any time during his seven-day hunger strike, "it was weakness of intellect, birdie, I cried" and not weakness due to famine...
Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for 23 years, he never held a city sinecure which paid less than $6,000, while he developed a profitable insurance brokerage business on the side). He blamed James Aloysius Farley with fomenting revolt against him. "Now, I don't want to make any accusation against President Roosevelt," he continued...