Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...
...dinner was long and formal?too formal for Ambassador Dawes, master of diplomatic informality. Even before dessert was passed, Ambassador Dawes got up from his place and wandered off to talk to old friends at another table...
...That's all right," General Dawes answered. "I'll see the Goddess of Liberty in just a minute, there are a dozen old reparations friends of mine here I want to talk...
...talk of naval reduction turned attention to Britain's new First Lord of the Admiralty, Albert Victor Alexander, whose first task may be to scrap some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty...
...sound of a salvo of guns. She was weaned at three weeks and put on the bottle. Only it wasn't milk in the bottle, it was brandy! . . . The only powder she's ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious...