Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics as natural enough. He attributes it to: 1) his homespun personality (he is "Tom" and not T. V. or Professor Smith on the radio); 2) his thin but intimate radio voice, which listeners so persistently confused with Alexander Woollcott's, that in desperation he invited Woollcott to talk on one of his programs; and 3) his political philosophy. His philosophy: that politicians are not supposed to evolve their own ideas but to evolve compromise programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians. In the Illinois Senate he introduced only one bill, providing...
Instead of keeping their Downing Street talk secret for hours or days, the British and French chiefs smashed another precedent by having the gist of what they had said flashed to all the world immediately. M. Daladier was revealed, for example, to have readily agreed with Mr. Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first...
...Chee-Chee, the musicomedy made from Charles Pettit's witty, bawdy Son of the Grand Eunuch, which Lew Fields produced in 1928. Lew Fields's son Herb, who wrote the books of several of their early hits, was sold on the Son of the Grand Eunuch, talked Hart into liking it, the two of them talked Herb's father, all three talked Rodgers. Rodgers believes it had the best score he ever wrote, that what killed it was the idea itself: "You just can't talk about castration all evening. It's not only embarrassing...
...conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Cambridge, England, from August 17 to 23, Dr. Shapley presented a second paper on "The Nature of the Inner Metagalaxy." In this talk he reported the discovery by Harvard of a conspicuous irregularity in the distribution of galaxies, or island universes, in the southern sky. This discovery, he said, is of fundamental importance, for, although it does not prove the theory that the universe is expanding, it eliminates conflicting theories based on counts of galaxies...
...precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place to a running accompaniment of strong talk and more or less continuous gunfire...