Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confines his efforts to Americans, English and the savages, who are heathen. The Methodists, Baptists and other Protestant pastors are sore on the Bishop for that. They're hot after the Catholic Filipinos, and leave the heathen Igorots to Bishop Brent. He goes to their villages to talk to them about Christ, and stopping their headhunting. He's done quite a piece of work among them." My memory of Bishop Brent is on that hot, dusty mountain road, his hand upon the head of his lowly porter, as the General and I drank our stirrup...
...praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
Bulldog Drummond (Samuel Goldwyn). Another all-talking photograph of an old play is kept from being all talk by the intelligent acting of Ronald Colman. What does the bored British officer with the poetic eyes and the little mustache do when the gang catches him? Does he fight his way out for the sake of the lovely girl whose uncle is held captive in a house where anything might happen? You are quite safe in feeling assured that in all circumstances such an officer will behave as gallantry prescribes. Best shot: the effect of the fall of a spoon...
...Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...
...Marx family of seven first lived in two rooms of London's shimmy Soho. Father Marx could not write at home. For years he went to the British Museum reading room to work. He had talked much of force, meaning bombs and guns. Henceforth he was busy building a powder magazine of ideas. He had written: "Theory, too, becomes a physical force when it takes possession of the masses." He also observed: "There can be no talk of a real revolution in such a time as this, when general prosperity prevails...