Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the Navy's War Plans Divisions. Captain Royal Ingersoll last winter went to England to exchange data about Naval building with the British Admiralty. At House hearings on the Big Navy Bill, this prompted talk of a secret alliance between England and the U. S. Last week. Franklin Roosevelt upped 54-year-old Captain Ingersoll to a rear admiralty. His job when confirmed by the Senate': command of the Sixth Cruiser Division, at San Pedro...
...hustled through two days before without a record vote. Congressman Vinson, who has always tried to do his level best for Franklin Roosevelt, drawled: "We have done our dead level best to ... be helpful to business recovery." By no means reassured but heartily sick of six months' talk about taxes, the House discussed the bill briefly, extended the hour allotted for discussion to pay tributes to Member Vinson, who had been rewarded for his labors by a $12,500 appointment to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Then it passed the measure 242 votes to 89, sent...
Stolen Heaven is more likable than most gem-thievery pictures because its pattern is fringed with immortal music. The characters hide behind doors and talk crook lingo while the sound track throbs with Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Moszkowski, Strauss. The music is introduced by having the pianist practicing incessantly for a promised return to the concert stage. Best number: a montage giving an idea of what Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody might look like if sounds were pictures...
...South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players, ventriloquists and the strange assortment of educators and entertainers who, in brown tents pitched in small towns all over the U. S., spread culture to apathetic audiences before...
...Proper treatment will cure 99% of syphilitics," declared William A. Hinton, instructor in Preventive Medicine and Hydiene, in a talk in the Junior Winthrop Common Room last night sponsored by the Student Union and the Association of Medical Students...