Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baton Rouge to explain his uncle's illness. Heartbroken, Earl Long's wife tried to get her husband to rest quietly. Turning on her, he accused her and Russell Long of conspiring with his enemies. He became violent, had to be locked in his room. There was talk that he threw empty bottles through his window that night, and broke his bedstead. Finally, at week's end, he permitted a doctor to give him a sedative, and then, early one morning, he was carried on a stretcher into a white station wagon and driven to the airport...
...Geneva there was consternation-and something at last to talk about. Bitterly, Selwyn Lloyd commented that the story could not fail to have a "bad effect on the British delegation's standing with other delegations." In London Laborite Nye Bevan wryly remarked that if Labor had said such a thing, "we should have been accused of unpatriotically stabbing the Foreign Secretary in the back in the course of international negotiations...
...Times story made headlines and talk the world over among those who assume (erroneously) that the Times is the unofficial mouthpiece of British governments, as it had been, to its subsequent shame, in the days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward...
Leonard continued to stall and the talk got uglier. Blinky visited Leonard in Los Angeles, accompanied by a couple of tough-looking hoodlums with police records who lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You'll never know what hit you"). He testified that Carbo called too. said "something to the effect that 'You're going to get hurt. We're going to make an example of you.' " After the hearing, police were assigned to guard Leonard whenever he left...
Well Adjusted? The man who turns out such iridescent pap has also given the Paar show many of its permanent gags, including the bit in which balls of various size talk to each other (a pingpong ball will say to a golf ball: "Mabel, you've really got to give up sweets"). A lanky (5 ft. 11½ in., 170 Ibs.) man with a face like a TV portrait of Dorian Gray, Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having...