Word: talker
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...when she was ten, Daddy died. It was the trauma of her life, or so she came to think in later years. At any rate, she became a compulsive talker, a compulsive learner, a compulsive writer. All through her teens she scribbled stories, plays, poems-many of them sufficiently professional to be published in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She won a scholarship to Smith, where she made straight A's. But her feelings took their revenge. At 19, after an unhappy month in New York City, she ran home to Wellesley, Mass., crawled under the front porch, hid behind...
...Democratic fat cats, "this Lindsay" was a freak, a Park Avenue big talker, a silk-stocking boy. Their candidate, City Controller Abraham David Beame, 59, a mild, mite-size (5 ft. 2 in.) party hack, was admittedly no giantkiller, but he comfortably fitted the mediocre mold to which they were accustomed. Few believed that cynical New Yorkers would be moved by the eager idealism and outraged accusations of this Lindsay-the towering (6 ft. 3 in.), wavy-haired Republican whose improbable good looks and earnest eloquence plainly marked him a do-gooder and an amateur by Tammany's hard...
...salesman was described by one observer as "slightly pudgy, a fast talker with a New York accent, about 5 ft. 10 In. tall, with carefully-combed black hair." He was reported to have been carrying "a big wad" of cash and checks...
Thus began the metamorphosis of Hubert Humphrey. He was, and he remains, a torrential talker. In 1958 his 81-hour interview in Moscow with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev left interpreters reeling. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words a minute, and he will rapidly discourse until dawn on any subject, to any audience, on any occasion. Even last week, when Johnson finally told Humphrey that he would be the vice-presidential nominee, the President still felt compelled to warn Humphrey against talking too much...
...ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget and noticeably thin-skinned where criticism of his work was concerned. But he was also the "greatest talker" she had ever...