Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back in Washington one morning before breakfast the President greeted Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, and six Admirals?all of whom sat down to eat, to talk about naval reductions. Next day the President sent a new note (contents secret) to England about cruisers...
...portly Persian with a bushy black beard handled the gavel as the Assembly of the League of Nations met in Geneva, last week, to talk "Security," "Disarmament" and then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient...
...There has been some talk of the police closing our play, but the play will not close. The 'saints' will remain too, only we will make some changes in the text to make it absolutely clear that the play is anti- capitalistic, rather than anti-American...
...Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...
Remained behind, too, Dr. Eckener, to talk business with the Goodyear-Zeppelin people, to raise money for freight-carrying Zeppelins soon to be abuilding at Friedrichshafen and operating across the oceans...