Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted to override the President's veto of the 1936 bonus bill, the biggest Treasury raid in Congressional history. His fellow Republicans value him not as a legislator but as an oratorical shock trooper. Imposing, hawk-nosed, witty, a voluptuous lover of words, Congressman Short is willing to talk on almost anything, sometimes does so memorably...
...leave of his countrymen in an affecting broadcast which acknowledged with dignity that there must now be a change. Dr. Benes, who is independently well off, retired to his 100-acre estate near Prague, where his gardener exulted: "This is the first time I have had a chance to talk with the President about our tulip beds since last spring...
...Wall Street men take time to talk about the weather, but one morning last week a group sat in an office where Wall Street meets the East River and talked of little else. The occasion: a demonstration of the weather charting system which American Export Line expects to use when and if its subsidiary, American Export Air Lines, Inc., starts flying the Atlantic. Along one wall stood a huge map of the North Atlantic. Dotting the 3,445-mile course from Manhattan to Lisbon via the Azores were India-ink silhouettes of 14 ships, nine American Exporters, five Fascist...
...automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
More than any other writer of his rank, Ernest Hemingway tells his stories by means of pungent, unexpected, abbreviated dialogue. Characters are revealed in sharp, blind, tormented speeches which break through commonplace talk. In some of Hemingway's stories, notably Fifty Grand and The Killers, so much of the narrative is implicit in the dialogue that they read almost like acting versions. For these reasons many a reader has wondered how Hemingway would be as a playwright...