Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House. Several weeks ago a well-dressed young man walked briskly up the White House Steps, nodded amiably to the guards, pressed through the front door and strolled unchallenged into the dining room where President Hoover was alone. There he dropped his fine manner, began to talk rapidly, wildly. Realizing his danger before this stranger, the President conversed courteously with him, humored him, until a guard entered to lead the intruder away. A mighty shake-up occurred among the President's bodyguards...
Owen D. Young. Principal author of the Dawes Plan, he has served Europe as the all-wise financial consultant on reparations. Great has been his work; small has been his talk...
...long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week she stood in a smart Paris frock at the right hand of the Son of Heaven, and made gracious small talk in soft, Washingtonian English with the British Prince...
President-Elect Hutchins conducted himself skilfully in his first meeting with the press. In the best tradition he disclaimed any revolutionary ideas, and balanced his disclaimer with "I do have great ambitions for the future growth. . . ." For something to talk about, he said he "wondered" how he would feel about having co-eds under his charge. He expressed no alarm when he learned that his new charges had recently held a vote to determine their "MOST BEAUTIFUL MALE," had chosen pompadoured Captain Virgil Gist, of the University basketball team...
...women, what each part is for and how it works." She described the male and female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love is the intensely intimate part of it, and the most critical for happiness...