Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down at the far end of La Bombilla was the side door through which Assassin "Juan" had entered, plying the trade of a street caricaturist. The completed drawing which he had made of the President Elect lay on the table. So did the pistol which had spoken five times from concealment under the caricaturist's handful of caricatures...
...peculiarly Yankee, a blue-bellied, Vermont Yankee to the core. He had exhibited absolutely no initiative. He had spoken no memorable phrase. ... He played no poker, drank no liquor, made few friends. And Mrs. Coolidge, who had come with him from the duplex apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, for which they had been paying twenty-seven dollars a month all their married life, and who moved with him into one of Washington's rather grand but noisy hotels, had to work hard, those first seventeen Washington months of the Vice-Presidency, keeping him awake after bedtime in Northampton at nine...
...knew I could do it. It cost me $7,000 to finance the adventure, but I hope to get it all back and more besides." These were the first words spoken by Jean A. Lussier, 36, of Springfield, Mass., after he had dropped over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball...
...Family Picnic.* In these, the conversation and the accompanying action-noises run without interruption through the entire film. Many critics believe that comedies and news features are the only entertaining vehicles for the talkies. In full-length drama-films, Movietone uses synchronized orchestra accompaniment, occasional songs, but no spoken dialog. Vitaphone has put dialog into its The Lion and the Mouse, Glorious Betsy, Tenderloin. These films run along quietly and then, at dramatic moments, burst into dialog. The effect is startling, but often annoying. Vitaphone plans the following new talking and singing films: Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, Fannie...
Money. Prompt to champion Nominee Hoover and the Dry-spoken Republican platform was President (Mrs.) Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. "We will show our appreciation," said she. Dr. S. E. Nicholson, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, put it the other way around. He promised that anti-salooners would spend $250,000 in New York State alone to beat Democrat Smith...