Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which is why I think the word talking is misleading...
...year or two the Doctor was known to be very ill and when local newspaper men called they couldn't get any news. The Doctor died soon, his body was taken out of the house by night and buried or shipped away, from Freeport before any word of his death was given to the public...
Perhaps it is all to the good if TIME'S edge is dulled a bit. For instance: my husband and a judge I know of formerly did not like your magazine because its style was too flippant (the judge's word) or "persnickety" (my husband's). Now they read it more frequently and with more relish, they say. But they like sugar on their grapefruit. I like salt. And I like the tang of the savory bons mots with which TIME seasons the news...
...total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over to the man with the beret, still more surprised when the red-faced man then ordered a bottle of Coca-Cola for himself and walked out with it without speaking a single word to the elderly man. The clerk might have forgotten the incident if the man with the beret had not drunk his gratuitous beer alone and walked away from the bar never again to be seen alive...
...Congress and the public President Roosevelt last week gave the evidence which had caused him to release a blast at wealthy tax-dodgers (TIME, June 7). It was in the form of a 3,000 word letter from Secretary Morgenthau and amounted to a short course in the art of tax-dodging as perfected by high-priced lawyers...