Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Communist Party gave a remarkable exhibition of hauteur. Like the aristocratic Southern lady who sneered "Newspaper talk" when told that the Titanic had gone down, Party members have steadily sniffed when evidence offered at Washington charged Communists with espionage, treason, counterfeiting, slugging, murder, double-dealing, graft, wrecking, sabotage, forgery, as well as considerable mental and political confusion. Beaming over recent Russian successes in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, Communists were in no mood to talk about the revelations of Congressman Martin Dies's Committee investigating un-American activities...
According to the present schedule, Roscoe Pound will inaugurate the series November 1 with a talk on "The Economic Interpretation and the Law of Torts." Other speakers include: Sidney P. Simpson, "A Possible Solution to the Pleading Problem," November 15; Walter B. Leach, "A Study in Will and Trust Draftsmanship," December 6; Erwin N. Griswold, "Some State and National Boundaries," December 13; Livingston Hall, "Mistake of Law in Criminal Cases," January 10; Thomas R. Powell, "Some Aspects of American Constitutional Law," January 17; James A. McLaughlin, "Federal Governmental Regulation of Business," February 7; Zechariah Chafee, Jr., "Unfair Competition," February...
...last year except for narrower radiators with rounded edges and more chrome grille work. Four lines (two of them brand new) are priced $20 to $100 lower this year at $867 to $6,283. The new 160 & 180 (eight cylinders, 160 h.p.) replace the Super Eight and Twelve. Shop talk: big gains in power-to-weight ratio...
...glamorous encounters, incredible coincidences and cosmic conversations with the casual air of an article in the National Geographic. More Spenglerian than picaresque, The Seven Who Fled brought together to their mutual doom seven characters symbolic of European races, let them slowly disintegrate with their bewildered sensuality and inter minable talk into the vast oblivion of Asia...
Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys...