Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired veteran protested bitterly that he was the "last man to propose a surrender." Only Mr. Lloyd George knew precisely why he made such a speech at such a time, but one could guess that...
...asked that its former capital Wilno, which was seized in 1920 by Poland and thus has now passed into Soviet hands be "restored." The Moscow radio announced that "the workers of Wilno wish to belong to the Soviet Fatherland and not to Lithuania!" As the negotiations continued, there was talk in Moscow that Russia would return a part of the city and province of Wilno to Lithuania...
Realizing what the Mahatma's good will means, Lord Linlithgow lost no time in cordially inviting the aged Indian boss to talk over "cooperation." Mr. Gandhi, no longer the flaming revolutionary of yore, obviously would have liked to oblige his British friends. Plagued with the vision of a possible bloody revolution in India should the British be forced to leave (and there is nothing he abhors more than blood), the Mahatma has of late become one of Britain's stanchest friends. But he was on a spot, for if he came out flatly for war support, his smart...
...never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
This week the doors of Manhattan's garish Grand Central Palace open on the biggest, brightest, costliest annual U. S. coming-out party: The National Automobile Show. For their 40th debut U. S. motormakers have plenty of shiny new models to show, plenty of bright new points to talk about...