Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another White House guest of the week was George Woodward Wickersham, Chairman of the new Law Enforcement Commission, who called for a preliminary talk with President Hoover...
Opposed to these loud Occidentals who fill the theatre with the smell of gunpowder are a batch of Orientals who rattle slates, employ green strangling cords, talk occasionally like old Southern gentlemen. Douglass R. Dumbrille, late of The Three Musketeers, is an inimitable O'Neill...
...Safety First.' That is not very thrilling to the spirit of youth. If he had said 'Live Dangerously' or 'Adventure Greatly' he might have caught the eye and heart of a younger generation. ... If he had promised husbands for surplus women, or a tax on bachelors ... or State-endowed 'talk-ies.' he might have aroused their interest...
...attacked from the human angle. Vocational guidance charts, in many cases, the course which the man will sail for the rest of his life. Therefore, there should be no barriers between the man and the guide. Everything possible should be done to make the seeker feel free to talk in detail about his private life and his future hopes. To further this end, I believe that guidance should be done not in any bustling office, with its paraphenalia of efficiency, but in a comfortable room with comfortable chairs, across cigars or cigarettes. In an environment which bespeaks leisure and intimacy...
...next question is how should this guidance be given? The committee feels that informal talks to groups of students by eminent professional men; personal interviews with company representatives or alumni or business men; and books and pamphlets are all valuable sources of information. But they should all be directed and coordinated by one man, perhaps with assistants, whose office should be a clearing-house and permanent center. It seems essential that this man be impartial, with no axe to grind as in the case of a company representative. He should be well informed, at least having access through other persons...