Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously against the encroachments of the Commonwealth on their local authority...
Perhaps it is fortunate that the theory didn't come earlier. We might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
...Mayer Picture Corp. is showing in Manhattan & elsewhere a "talkie" adaptation of Paul Armstrong's Alias Jimmy Valentine.* It is a "sellout." But "sellout" or no, company directors last week felt that to attract more discriminating, intelligent patrons a certain silent scene would be improved by inserting the spoken words "Is that so?" The actor to speak, William Haines, was in Hollywood; the film to be improved, in Manhattan. Actor Haines spoke at a sound box; his three words were transmuted to a jiggly streak of light on a photograph film; the film sent to the Los Angeles Bell...
...Tokhanian. Eastern Iranian. Togdian, have not only disappeared many centuries ago, but, with the exception of Togdian, we had not even an intimation that they had ever existed, and all our conceptions of Aslatic history have been greatly changed by the fact that languages akin to ours were once spoken on the Western borders of China. Moreover, the artistic remains discovered or unearthed in Chinese Turkestan and Western china have given us the missing links for the transmission from Bastriana (present northen Afghanistan) to the Far East of motifs and types which combine in new formulae Greek, Iranian, and Indian...
These words are Spanish whereas in Brazil only Portuguese (not Spanish) is spoken (or didn't you know it?) and therefore the correct spelling is "Senhor," "Senhora" and "Senhorita...