Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive...
...Being married to Dorothy was like living in the Herald Tribune city room." He once claimed: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years ago." Dorothy is believed to have contributed to the portrait of "Winifred Homeward the Talking Woman" in Gideon Planish. "She was an automatic, self-starting talker. Any throng of more than two persons constituted a lecture audience for her, and at sight of them she mounted an imaginary platform, pushed aside an imaginary glass of ice water, and started a fervent address full of imaginary information about Conditions and Situations that lasted till the audience...
...their husbands' fighting guts that won me my four stars." Pre-Season Talk. When he sits in his high, steel chair on the flag bridge of a super-battleship, Halsey's wide, thin-lipped mouth with downturned corners looks tight enough. But he is a good talker in private conversation, he-man variety; his give-&-take with his top staff officers is free & easy...
...Smooth talker Bob Shepherd and pretty Mrs. S., after dinner at Don Phillips' rancho, are sure that Don has Toni of the Ritz in his kitchen. Dinner engagements are booked weeks in advance. Bob Simpson is selling his single seat at the symphony now that he has met a very attractive someone, frequently a Cowie guest. Arab Kingsley has been humming concertos and tearing telephone books in half looking forward to his violin sessions interrupted momentarily by disbursing afloat...
...Loud talker Gum beater