Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College, Oxford and editor of the "Hibbert Journal," will deliver the Dowse Institute lectures on March 21 and 22 in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by the Trustees of the Institute with the cooperation of Harvard University. The subject of the first talk will be "Religious Difficulties in Early Life," and of the second "Sight-seeing, Time-Thinking, and Religion...
...Redeeming Sin (Warner) is good comedy. That it was intended as a serious picture did not keep tolerant first-night audiences from chuckling happily at a cast of Parisian underworldlings who talk in the manner of the English nobility-rat Dolores Costello demanding "the jewels"; at Conrad Nagel who, told that his sweetheart has married in his absence, exclaims: "Then I'm too late!"; at a sister shaking a dying boy to bring him back to life; at the Hollywood conception of a Paris sewer; at a supposedly French priest reciting the Lord's Prayer with an Irish...
...manner bristled with the confidence that this conclusion would be reached by anyone not a nincompoop. Hour after hour the U. S. Chairman of the Committee, Owen D. Young, sat slightly reclined, with his long lawyer-legs comfortably crossed. He puffed a pale cigar. He let Dr. Schacht talk...
...Austen cannot or will not stoop to "talk American." He will not permit his good intentions to be paraded stark naked before anybody. Therefore when the British press quoted Sir Esme as saying that "before long" something will be done about naval limitation, Sir Austen speared the Ambassador with a statement as sharp and chill as an icicle: "There has been no change in the situation...
...English-"they tell the most extraordinary things-about their, husbands, their money affairs, their insides. They don't seem discouraged by not being asked. And they all seem so intimate with each other ... of course they seem very definite and practical, but it is a pity they talk so much...