Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down, motionless for five full minutes. Then he lifted his head, with the heaviness of a man who is suddenly very lonely. He whispered: "Get me the Palace." He informed the King, then called Washington, then labored with sad heart far into the night over the words he would speak in memoriam...
...high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...
...radio's professionals came off better than the host of minor notables who were rushed to the microphones. Most painful to the ordinary listener was the cumulative effect of the politicos who cannot speak without orating and of well-meaning citizens who aired sincere and hollow banalities. By contrast, radio's shirt-sleevers distinguished themselves...
...even universities. . . . The 'puhfessahs' . . . will tell you without your even asking that these are 'great works'. . . . They have builded this g-r-e-a-t institution! The mouthspread would take in the mighty expanse of Columbia University, but you look around and see ... nothing to speak of in this day and year of our Lord. The next thing you know, the talk has gotten around to funds...
...papers last week. Her column had only lapsed, not stopped, said United Feature's General Manager George A. Carlin. He recently renewed Mrs. Roosevelt's contract until 1950, to run regardless of whether she was still First Lady. Added Carlin: from now on, Mrs. Roosevelt can speak more freely on political matters...