Word: talker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephonic conversation where the two parties could talk to and hear each other simultaneously. Hitherto messages could be spoken only one way at a time, but German engineers have eliminated the interference of sending with receiving antennae. Just a push of a switch and the listener could become the talker. The duplex set operated on a wavelength of 1,800 or 1,450 meters. It was found effective up to 700 miles. Other conversations were held between the Columbus and persons in their offices in Germany; and when the Columbus reached Manhattan, U. S. telephone officials went aboard to examine...
...millionaire in disguise. But a millionaire can fall off a narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather slight and spiritless. The Talker. This ponderous project indicates that, even if a woman must yearn for a career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which did her no good; the husband was nearly snared by a stenographer...
...SHOW-OFF?Still exhibits the champion long-distance talker who doesn't even need a second wind...
...store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well as honest. A terse, explosive talker. When he is old, give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling's daughter, who should have been...
...Simpson, then 32, became Second Vice President of the firm in association with such prominent men as Potter Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, John G. Shedd, Henry T. Willing, H. Gordon Self ridge. The towheaded young Scotchman, alert and hardworking, made his way among them. He is not a great talker, but generally says what he thinks. Once in his younger days he went to Mr. Field demanding a raise...