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...thing we have had yet. We recently had a city election in Seattle. A successful business man, unknown in politics, opposed by every newspaper and every political agency in the city, won out by the most sweeping majority in the history of Seattle. Like Hoover, he was a "rotten" talker; knew nothing about politics, but the people were willing to judge him by his accomplishments and looked with scorn upon the scathing efforts of the political agencies that sought his defeat...
Winfield Eschelman of the Emerson senior class, glib talker, good swimmer, got together with Jack Keener, sleek cheerleader, and Sam Chase, smart debater, and some of the athletically "big men" of Emerson, to talk things over. Result: on Monday morning, instead of attending classes, some 800 Emersonians in floppy trousers, sporty sweaters, trim skirts and fetching blouses, went shouting and laughing through Gary's business section. Police disbanded them for "obstructing traffic" but many of them later stood around outside Emerson High School, hissing, gibing, catcalling at nonstriking students when school let out. Policemen saw to it that...
...More than 150 years ago a silly young Scotsman came to London. The two salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author...
...week, gave close examination to a machine that may make briefer the ten years now usually required to teach a person hard of hearing* to talk properly. The hard of hearing can easily imitate a normal person's talking lips, jaws and throat movements. But to imitate a talker's moving vocal cords requires tedious years of practice. Even after learning to talk properly the hard of hearing frequently forget to make their vocal cords work. Their lips move; they make no sound...
...unless he could hold his Bible in his lap, and after some months of this officials discharged him, as a nuisance. His influence on the simpler folk of the city, however, was profound. Many a sinful soul became a convert; many an enterprising man an imitator of Street Talker Flockhart...