Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Clark Younggreen is 37, stocky, with the beginning of a paunch, affable, shrewd; he is ready to talk about anything, but whatever he talks about he is talking business...
BAMBI-A Life in the Woods-Felix Salten-Simon and Schuster ($2.50). Painful in the extreme are animals that talk. Among long-standing exceptions are Aesop's menagerie with their impressive wit, and Br'er Rabbit with his ingenuity. Boasting no such qualifications, Bambi, straightforward story of animal life, is nevertheless another worthy exception. And though the story will also be read to children, the Book-of-the-Month Club has offered it to its subscribers, adults. For aside from interesting data on wild animals (which, not being the very wild animals of Safari, will...
...candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic régime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about the Oil Scandals...
...Henry Justin Allen was three years old. But 1,000 miles or so west of Warren County, Pa., where Baby Henry was learning to talk, a young telegraph operator named Edward Rosewater was finding life unusually busy. Within a few months he became 30 years old, a father and a newspaper owner. The baby he named Victor. The newspaper he called the Omaha...
William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...