Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promote is returning to its rightful prominence. The beetling brow and clenched fist of the ward-heeler are lost on the radio audience; his persuasion must now be based entirely on what the says, not on what he does, and such demands an ability to express ideas in clear spoken English...
...Brettenham House, he speaks only when spoken to. last week, entitled to speak only when spoken to, was President Albert L. Viles of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, which is the nearest thing to a trade "institute" individualistic U. S. rubbermen will tolerate. Had he been asked, Mr. Viles would have told the committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies...
...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...
...interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present-day language of a prosaic politician. The familiar casuistry of this episode is really much better suited for dramatic purposes than many of the pretentious poetic flights that adorn the work, and really have to be read to be grasped...
...event that doctors do decide that it would be better if the President did not leave Cambridge, and the microphone is installed in his residence, it will be the first time that such an installation has taken place. President Conant has spoken over a national hook-up many times, but never before directly from his house...