Crossword-Solution: TALKIES
We have 9 clues for the answer “TALKIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "The Jazz Singer" et al. | 1 answer |
| 1920s Hollywood breakthrough | 1 answer |
| 1920s film innovation | 1 answer |
| Entertainment innovation of the 1920's | 1 answer |
| Innovation of the 1920s | 1 answer |
| Silent counterparts, once | 1 answer |
| Silents successors | 1 answer |
| They ended the silent film era | 1 answer |
| sound films | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TALKIES (5)
Many hackers routinely hang numerous devices such as pagers, cell-phones, personal organizers, leatherman multitools, pocket knives, flashlights, walkie-talkies, even miniature computers from their belts.
Then the group, armed with bull's-eye lanterns, flashlights, and walkie-talkies, hauled the parts by tractor into the cave.
But from each plastic helmet a six-inch antenna projected straight upward, and the microwaves of suit-talkies made a jumble of slightly metallic sounds in the headphones of each suit.
Joe said curtly: "You're to snag as many Security men as you can, place them more or less out of sight under the Platform here, and tell them to turn off their walkie-talkies and wait.
They had their walkie-talkies turned off and would be subject only to his orders if an emergency arose.
Quotes with TALKIES (3)
Jeeter?" Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. "Are you awake?" She waited. A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn't sleep. He always answered her call no matter how late it was." I'm here," his voice echoed back. "Trouble sleeping again?""Yeah.""Another bad dream?""Uh-huh," she sniffed, unexpected tears flooding her eyes. My dad was calling for me, but I couldn't find him." She couldn't believe she'd said …
Television wasn't getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking horses like Mr Ed or an absurdist pig like Arnold Ziffle... Just like the heroic animals in silent films became comedians in talkies, animals on television were becoming jesters, something Rin Tin Tin had never been.
John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (2005–2022).