Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
Gangling, soft-spoken Clifford Durr believes that Herbert Hoover had the right idea: "The ether is a public medium, and its use must be for public benefit. The use of radio channels is justified only if there is a public benefit...
George S. Messersmith, new Ambassador to Argentina, paused in Rio en route to Buenos Aires, had a reunion with ex-King Carol and Mistress Magda (he had known them in Mexico). Diplomat Messersmith had stoutly stuck up for them, and told how. When somebody had spoken slurringly about them, he had slammed back: "For 13 years he has been faithful to her; and for 13 years she has not looked at another man. Which is more than...
...intimate of the great. Joe Louis had spoken at the opening of his Bronzeville store and Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson had declared to the folks jamming the street: "You have God, Father Divine. . . . Now you have the Jones Brothers...
Last week in London, ABCA (now minus the A for Army) had set out to make the citizen as well informed as the soldier was. BCA's boss was husky, soft-spoken William Emrys Williams, 49, the Welshman who ran ABCA. All ten of the young Army officers (now "demobbed") who turned out the Army leaflets, plus five other veterans, were at work on new ones, on topics ranging from the rising British airways to the falling British birthrate. The first (just out): Food and Famine...