Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses...
...Manhattan, to supervise her $200,-ooo suit against Disney Productions, Ltd. and RCA Manufacturing Co., went glucose-voiced Adriana Caselotti, who spoke as Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She charged breach of contract, said her voice had been used on phonograph records without her consent, that she had been paid a pittance of less than...
...lunged, devoted Emily Post of the O'Haras. And Vivien Leigh had not petted and pouted on the screen for five minutes before the fussy Atlanta audience was ready to underwrite Selznick's choice of the little-known English actress to be the Southern belle. Whether she spoke letter-perfect middle high Georgian, few people outside middle...
...airfield, His Majesty spoke the order, "Go into it," over the radio-telephone to a triad of fighters standing alert with propellers idling. When the ships shot aloft and whizzed back over the field in tight formation, he telephoned to their pilots: "That was a beautiful take...
...court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery, $300; Brother Colin Montgomery, 28, $150; Alex Calvert, 21, $50). Smart Defense Attorney Aubrey G. Weaver spoke for the hunting set when he declaimed that the boys had done "what any red-blooded Virginian* would have done . . ." And that "these young men have rendered a public service to this community...