Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announcer Bill Goodwin, the $1,000 a week he got for plugging Swan soap was no soporific: he still wanted to be a comedian. His whole point in plugging soap on the Burns & Allen show-with an agreement that he be given plenty of publicity and good lines to speak-was to attract attention to himself. But the stars of the Burns & Allen show are Burns & Allen. Advertisements that printed ambitious Bill Goodwin's name in type as big as the stars' rocked George Burns back on his heels. Presently Goodwin's publicity and his lines began...
Then, of course; there was New Year's Eve, and that unforgettable morning after--in class. The drone of the Profs mingled with the snores of the class. And only Tom Gaines--a teetotaller if I ever smelled one--had the energy to speak, as he cracked, "Why I feel so bad, the circles around my eyes have bags under them." Gay parties celebrated what, for most of us, is the last New Year's for quite a while. Out in Roslindale, some of the boys had quite a time. The Copley Square Officers' Club was the stamping ground...
...isolated experiment of giving supplemental vitamins to 200 people over a one-month period is not news that is clear, candid or concise [TIME, Dec. 4]. When scientists speak of vitamins having "demonstrable effects" they speak in terms of years, lifetimes and even generations...
Gerald Nye, 52, giving up the Senate seat in which North Dakota voters had kept him for 19 years, admitted: "I would be lacking completely in frankness were I to say that leaving . . . is painless. . . . Knowing that this might be the last time I will speak on this floor, there has been some temptation to make this . . . an 'I told you so' speech. . . . You see the gravity of the peril in which our foreign entanglements have involved us. . . . I am sure, knowing the power of British propaganda, that within 20 years-perhaps within ten years-we shall...
...well-known characters in international politics showed himself in a new and more popular light last week. The new Lord Templewood (the old Sir Samuel Hoare), long considered an appeaser and compromiser with Fascism, came back from almost five years as British Ambassador to Franco to speak his mind about totalitarianism. Either he had changed or he had been much misunderstood...