Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males came to mysterious ends. The settlers would not talk, and the whereabouts of the Baroness have been unknown for four years...
Around Detroit, automobile plants are native architecture, just as automobile talk is native folklore. More closely identified with that architecture than anyone else alive is a burly, white-haired man of 69 who lives and does most of his breathing at a drafting board in Detroit's New Center Building. Albert Kahn has been Packard's architect for 35 years, Ford's for 30, Chrysler's since the firm was incorporated in 1925, General Motors' on 127 projects. And as the products of those companies girdle the globe, so do the works of Albert Kahn...
...delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...
...nimble. Almost his first act as Majority Leader was to let New York's Wagner introduce the time-wasting anti-lynching bill, abhorrent to Southerners. When he was invited to speak to Washington's gay Alfalfa Club (dining) he asked Pat Harrison how long he should talk. An old hand, Pat Harrison said: "Well . . . about an hour and a half." Alben Barkley suspected nothing until, after an hour, the Alfalfans applauded when he said, "And in conclusion. . . ." As befits his plodding nature his favorite song is Wagon Wheels...
...sons recently wrote a play which was aired on a Northern Ireland children's program. BBC knows him as the man who persuaded it to broadcast pop concerts for his Belfast students during lunch time. But Director-General Ogilvie comes to BBC at a time when there is talk of spending ?1,000,000 to double Broadcasting House facilities, when the daring television venture needs careful nursing, when BBC's critics are calling for a return of the human element to their efficient but relatively austere radio machine...