Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke of the beautiful movement that women had made when, at a streetcorner, they turned round to lift up their skirts before they scurried across the street. 'That's a lost art,' he said...
...North, an editor of "The New Masses," who last night spoke on the same platform as Granville Hicks and Archibald MacLeish in an effort to raise money for the magazine, mentioned having seen several Harvard men fighting in Spain while he was in that country as correspondent for "The Daily Worker...
...Every boy played all the football that was in him," said Dick Harlow at the press conference after the game, and no coach ever spoke more aptly of a team which well deserved his commendation. What pleased Harlow most, however, was evident by his statement: "Those who did not look good again Brown looked good yesterday," and it is no secret that he was speaking primarily of left tackle Tom Healey, left guard Nick Mellen, and center Tim Russell...
This was no bluff, because all who uttered it were convinced they spoke the truth. But last week, with brave Czech crowds still shouting in Prague "We want to fight! Give us arms!." their gallant army obeyed heartbreaking orders from Premier Jan Syrovy and President Eduard Benes, began to withdraw from gigantic fortifications upon which this far-from-rich little country had spent heavily...
Aristocratic Mr. Eden's aristocratic friend, Alfred Duff Cooper, who last week resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...