Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luncheon at the White House while Mrs. Roosevelt was away on a lecture tour, he set off for Washington to persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing. By this time, he had informed the U. S. that the correct way to address the couple-whom he punctiliously avoided calling by name, referred to them as "my friends...
...Lucy attached to their Ford. St. Lucy is 23 feet long, contains living quarters forward, and in the rear, a confessional, a chapel with a folding altar, which can be opened for outdoor meetings. There is space in the trailer for phonograph records, sound film equipment, a public-address system. By last week Fathers Cunningham and Halloran were well accustomed to parking St. Lucy in likely spots, playing phonograph records to attract a crowd and then exhibiting about 50 minutes of religious movies with a 20-minute sermon sandwiched between. Said Father Cunningham before they left Manhattan: "They can take...
President Conant will make his formal address to Freshmen in the dining room of the Union at 7:45 o'clock Monday...
...preliminary to the exchange of opinion, an undergraduate will address the group as a whole, placing before it some of the specific problems which must be solved in the world...
...benefits from studying American tradition are twofold: the student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several...