Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kindly, equable gentleman that he is, Mr. Chief Justice Taft was neither vexed nor disturbed by the talk that went around Washington, as it does every year at this time, that there is certain to be a vacancy in the Supreme Court before long. Mr. Associate Justice Holmes, oldest of all the high-benchers, looked as hale and bright-of-eye as ever at 87. Even Mr. Associate Justice Sutherland, 66, who was sick and absent so much of last year, looked...
...sufficient for the President of the United States to communicate his views in writing to Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
...would like to meet some one with whom I could talk a while. I am a girl 23 years of age, well educated, and am strongly possessed by the wanderlust. And-most lonely...
...horses half the oats he did in 1914 and get the same service from them. That is exactly, however, what the public is demanding where it still insists on the 5? fare. If a 5? fare is insisted upon where on an average it costs 8? to transport, why talk about private capital doing that job? It simply cannot be done. Nor can it be done any cheaper by public capital, but we can tax the community instead of the individual rider to make up the difference...
Georges Clemenceau, spirited and robust, spent his 87th birthday frustrating eager newsmen. "Journalists now give their opinions to the public," he said, "rather than ask the public for theirs. I belong to the great public. Once I knew how to talk, now I have learned silence. Let me interpret my own silence...