Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bureau of information for students in the University is maintained daily from 9 until 5 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House at the northwest corner of the yard. A committee of upper classmen will be present to talk with new men, to take charge of mail and parcels left in its care, and generally to render any assistance possible...
...courage to talk as he thinks and to do what he says."-Mrs. Harry Harvey Thomas, president of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, registered Republican...
...Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...
...Hand Talk. Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, lawyer, physicist, songwriter, stood before one section of the B. A. A. S. with some tin tubes. By solemnly blowing and wiggling his fingers he made the tubes give out familiar words. This was his way of proving that sounds could be resolved into simple elements and contrariwise, combined into complex sounds. He urged further scientific study of phonation so that eventually all people will pronounce their words uniformly...
Ever since he left the Slade School, in London, many years ago, Painter John has been careless of the feelings of the people whom he paints or the people who talk about paintings. When he painted Lloyd George, a fellow native of Wales, the statesman sadly sputtered: "That is the picture of a Welshman at his worst...