Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very glad to see your pictorial paragraph, titled "God Control." Quite a few of my friends at Harvard have spoken very favorably about this article ... I certainly hope you will scare up some further pictures and give us more about the whole business...
Truck drivers are spoken of as knowing a lot about the threat and hazard of fatigue, but "college students, who ought to have intelligence comparable to that of a truck driver, even if they lack his experience, appear to pay little attention either to fatigue or speed when completing a long journey at night...
...these words, spoken this week by Court Crier Thomas Waggaman, about 250 reporters, lawyers and spectators in the resplendent marble-pillared courtroom of the Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. rose to their feet. At the same instant, the nine Justices who had been awaiting the cue for their entrance, filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
Golden Boy (produced by the Group Theatre) came last week fresh from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
...trial at Lyon was a suit in which one of the aristocratic original founders of the Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...