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Word: talked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock tomorrow night, the Reverend W. R. Matthews, M.A., will deliver another of the William Belden Noble lectures in Emerson D. The subject of his talk will be "The Changing Background of Religious Thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthews Gives Lecture Tomorrow | 5/3/1928 | See Source »

Boldest of the witnesses was a small, bent, greying woman. Like a Fury she raged at Herr Badchis, "You ordered my daughter's arrest and thought you could make her talk. When she kept quiet your men strapped her into a chair, an electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Third Degree | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...will say, Herr Badchis, that you turned on only enough electricity to make her talk. But instead she laughed. . . . She always laughs now. . . . You drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Third Degree | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...agonies that go on inside of a character called Him and a girl called Me. When the focus on this effort is lessened, people on the stage sing "Frankie and Johnny" with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most blatant appearance on the Manhattan stage; three old ladies called "weirds" talk about a pet hippopotamus, saying "It's toasted but it died." On the whole, him is an interesting, well acted and ambitious failure. Author e. e. cummings (his own lower cases) is also the author of a bitter and unwholesome book about the War, The Enormous Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Charles Paddock of Los Angeles, acclaimed by Grantland Rice "the fastest human of all time," who is appearing this week at Lowe's State Theatre in Boston, will don his running togs to try out the Stadium track some time this week and will probably talk to the University track track candidates at that time, it was announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FASTEST HUMAN" WILL TEST STADIUM CINDERS THIS WEEK | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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