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Word: talked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief differences between this trial and Oilman Sinclair's last one were: 1) that Fall was not a codefendant, owing to illness; 2) that Son-in-law Everhart was now obliged to talk, a Federal law having been changed for his benefit; and 3) that the jury was locked up, as the result of Oilman Sinclair having had his last jury, which was left at large, followed about by private detectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Forever | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Later, the scrubby bearded Count formally presented Mr. Gilbert to Signor Mussolini. There was much talk-about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revising Revived | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Several speakers have been scheduled to address the Freshmen. The evening's entertainment will be opened with a short talk by S.L. Batchelder '31, president of the class. Following, a short talk will be given by one of the assistant deans in charge of the Freshman Class, Mitchell Gratwick '22 or W.L. Nichols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN ARE TO ASSEMBLE FOR SMOKER AT UNION MAY 2 | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

Sixty-five years ago, when Alice Pleasance Liddell was 12 years old, she used often to talk to a friend of her father's called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alice in Wonderland | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Author Delmar, 23, Bronx-bred herself, reports with winning sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Harlem | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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