Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Begun and completed in the past tense was the article William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., wrote about President Coolidge in the August (1928) Plain Talk. Excerpts...
...Albany. "He didn't say much," she said. "I just asked him about the family and he told me they were all well, and then he asked me how we were all feeling. I just told him that we all felt fine. Yes, indeed, it was nice to talk to him again...
...read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...
...Movietone of the firm of William Fox accomplished the trick. Mr. Shaw was caught walking idly in his garden. Suddenly he stopped, faun-like, and looked into the camera as if it were just a jolly surprise. Then, with his beard close to the camera, he began to talk and confess to the public what a genial and gentle old fellow he really is. He made faces, explaining that he can look like Benito Mussolini and then, in a jiffy, look like his benevolent self. He pulled out his watch, said goodbye; and the audience felt sure that...
...Hollywood, people talk of a revolution in the cinema industry. Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, Pathe are going to make talkies. Searches are under way to find actors and actresses who make pleasant noises as well as pleasant faces. Oldtime favorites have been tested, classified, told to practice talking before their bedroom mirrors. It is likely that many of the talkies will be filmed in Manhattan and vicinity...