Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight Boykin's guests had drunk, eaten and spoken their fill. Boykin happily picked up the tab-about $16,000 -and shook his big head in wonderment. "Think of it, by God," he thundered. "Over a billion people represented right here in one hall. I doubt if there's ever been anything like...
...Budapest, "Andrassy ut 60," an address usually spoken in whispers, means what "Lyubyanka" means in Moscow: it is th.e headquarters of the Communist secret police. Boss of Andrassy ut 60 was Peter Gabor, onetime tailor's apprentice, who became a journeyman Communist and got his final training in Moscow. Gabor reached the zenith of his career at the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, where he produced evidence supposedly showing the cardinal's connection with U.S. diplomats. Under Gabor's regime, Andrassy ut 60, whose windowboxes were always bright with geraniums, became dreaded for merciless beatings and torture...
...Francisco detectives who ate their lunch at a Kearney Street bakery back in the 1870s all liked soft-spoken old Charley Bolton. Charley, a Civil War veteran who lived in a nearby rooming house, often sat at the detectives' table and chatted with them, sometimes about Black Bart, the bandit nemesis of Wells Fargo stagecoaches...
Parents' Clubs. Soft-spoken Principal Schwertz, a product of New Orleans schools himself (before going to Loyola University of the South), soon began to change things. He wanted a playground, and went direct to Beauregard parents for the money. Before long, he had enough to cover the muddy schoolyard with all-weather asphalt. Then he set up tennis, badminton and volleyball courts. For the youngest kids, he put in a basketball court with baskets five feet off the ground...
...deadpan Ole's deadpan son, J. C. Olsen. Johnson's wife and Olsen's mother used to be in the act and are still on call. "We're more laugh manufacturers than comedians," says Ole Olsen, 56. "Our gags are kind of living cartoons with spoken captions. We operate on the theory that people want fun, fun and more fun. Mister, you can't stand still. Even when we make mistakes we make them enthusiastically...