Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest banker in the U. S. he is usually the quietest. He makes few pronunciamentos. When he does speak as a banker his words carry world weight. Banker Wiggin's address to Chase stock holders last January was front-page news round the world. Said...
Incidental note: Dean A. L. Stone, head of the school of journalism at Montana's University, once stated that the best story he ever wrote was one he concocted while on the Standard staff. A spectacular railroad wreck had, so to speak, fallen in Stone's lap. The only newsman in miles, he strung thousands of words together while the blazing cars of the unlucky train made the night lurid in Hellgate canyon near Missoula. He filed the yarn on the wire. Discovered next day that the Standard office had burned to the ground...
...vain I sought to calm her. Tears choked her voice. She could not speak. Finally she regained control of herself, staring at me through tear-filled eyes. 'Rudolf is dead! You alone must break the news to the Emperor...
...Cubans were still too sick to speak, but Boatman Carey was more communicative. He had taken his five passengers far out to sea in a speed boat, searching for a mysterious ship that was to carry them on to Havana. They never found it. After hours upon hours of tumbling about in a heavy fog, the retching Cubans cried that if they must die, they wanted to die on land. Two days later the schooner Harold put in loaded to the gunwales with more seasick conspirators, 52 of them this time, 39 Cubans, the rest Negro, Chinese, Mexican. Only...
...good race horse nor was there the next year when he lost two-thirds of his 23 races. The next year, Sun Beau won six races out of 14 in which he started. Because he won five of them in September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season: the prizes he won amounted to $105,005 and his owner, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, decided to enter...