Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this first-class historian or rabble-rouser or both, went to Charlottesville, Va., to the Institute of Public Affairs. There he met many another professor, nearly all of them in a mood to speak out smartly on many a public affair. But, again it was John Holladay Latane who spoke most decidedly out. Said...
...picnic at Vimy Ridge, in France. Thence they proceeded to Ypres, Belgium, and assembled around the famed Menin Gate, an imposing War memorial almost covered by the inscribed names of more than 55,000 British Dead. Into a radio microphone, set up in the roadway before Menin Gate, spoke Charles of Flanders, Edward of Wales, and finally the Archbishop of York...
When Nick F. wiggled off, the New York Times, whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...
...Straton started a crusade against Manhattan "night-life." He spoke from his pulpit of painted women who "plied their trade"; he described with astonishing intimacy the nudity on view in Aphrodite, a current revue. So detailed were his accounts that many members of his congregation deserted it and some of the trustees took exception to his eloquence...
Conspicuous among the U. S. inhabitants who appeared and spoke in their accustomed accents at the recording studio was the Vermonter with his kued for could, his enser for answer, his cahft for coughed. Also conspicuous was the Middle Ohioan with his doan for don't, his then for than...