Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover has spoken, or, rather, written 'into the air.' His trumpet has given an uncertain sound, a mere ambiguous squeak. [Laughter...
...members of Congress some 250 Representatives and a score of Senators flew. Observers watched to see how Congress would deal with Representative Furlow's bill providing a separate promotion list and "just" pay for the Army Air Corps, for which Col. Lindbergh has spoken...
...England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and to the South. When the Chicago Tribune castigates "the effete East," it usually refers to New England...
...with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
...golden processionals of the sky. No celestial beast was missing; goat, unicorn, fish, lion, hurrying crab crowds its shining convexity. After the death of the astronomer, his globe became famous in the country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession of noble families enjoyed its possession; it was spoken of as "the great astronomical ball." A month ago, Baron Ralamb, its owner, brought the great ball to Manhattan. Last week it was displayed to admiring crowds at the American Museum of Natural History. They were delighted with its appearance when they learned that its value...