Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went down to see him not long ago, and took lunch with him. I think he is a pretty good executive, but a mighty poor talker. . . . He thinks he can convince the American people that I am a rascal. Well, I have always thought I could outcuss him, but I was too much of a gentleman to try. . . . And that, Mr. President, is enough for Mr. Ickes...
...fast talker from way back, Sandefer began his Indian operations in fine style. He made a spur-of-the-moment promise to a group of New Delhi charitarians : to give them a party at Viceroy Viscount Wavell's palace. The Viceroy proved willing. The Texan also called on Mahatma Gandhi, and offered him ten four-year Hardin-Simmons scholarships for Indians. Gandhi promptly took...
Maury Maverick, fluent, fiery but literate Texas talker, railed against what he called Washington's "gobbledygook" language. To employes of the Smaller War Plants Corp. Chairman Maverick wrote: "Let's stop 'pointing-up' programs, 'finalizing' contracts that 'stem from' district, regional, or Washington 'levels.' There are no 'levels,' Washington local government is as high as Washington government. . . . Anyone using the words 'activation' or 'implementation' will be shot...
...Texas Talker. Tom Connally's mother (he dropped the Thomas Terry long ago) was a Georgia girl who moved to Texas with her young husband, lost him in the first year of the Civil War, and returned to Georgia, where she married his brother and repeated the trip to Texas. Jones Connally, husband No. 2, became the father of Tom, of six daughters and another boy who died in infancy. After fighting through the Civil War, Father Connally settled down to raising cotton on the good black dirt of the Brazos valley near Waco. He prospered. But Tom, born...
...become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through the jungle of Burmese vocables. Every morning for an hour he produces them as ordered by Yale's William S. Cornyn, a Hnguistician (not a linguist, or talker of particular languages, but a student of the universal nature of all languages). Cornyn explains to the soldiers how to use their speech organs to reproduce even the most baffling of the Shwe Waing sound effects. He gives his students the meanings of a few words, shows them...