Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite programs of Latin-Americans, it appeared, were news broadcasts, but they were also eager to hear such entertainers as Rudy Vallée, talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
...which she puts to individual use. Of ice that does not satisfy her, she will casually observe that it is "stinking lousy," or of someone who bores her, "he stinks." A good dancer, she is fond of other good dancers like slinky Cesar Romero, lanky Lee Bowman. There was talk of a Bowman-Henie romance until it became known that Sonja, noting Bowman's high hairline, had baldly advised him to get fitted for a toup...
Recalling that the dismissal of the late Henry Suzzallo (subsequently president of the Carnegie Foundation) from the presidency of the University of Washington 13 years ago led to talk of impeaching former Governor Roland H. Hartley, Governor Martin's opponents began to build up the Fisher dismissal as a major political issue...
...Dana sat him down in 1914 and in 15 homely chapters cut through the welter of U. S. snobbery and callowness about Art. In his classic American Art: How It Can be Made to Flourish, he observed that the ability to tell a well-designed teacup should precede precious talk about Giotto; and he urged the purchase and study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things...
...across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk back to you-just like a Democrat...