Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night Mrs. Roosevelt drove out to address the Faculty Women's Club of Howard University (Negro). The dusky clubwomen had to threaten to call the police to keep Negro newshawks and cameramen from crashing the party. In the confusion Mrs. Roosevelt found herself alone on the street after the affair. Gallantly Negro Edgar C. Brown, CCC press-agent who has a bushy Vandyke beard, squired her to the White House...
Finally, such a system would provide a superb training ground for the younger instructors. Not only would they learn to conduct and address a group of students, but they would have a heaven-sent opportunity to replenish their regular salaries as members of the university staff. The chance to add to their wages and at the same time make them far more valuable in their connection with Harvard by means of this training would be a striking solution to a problem long in the minds of the corporation...
...more active days, Rogers has travelled in India, China, "and way stations", and now keeps in touch with far places by radio. When listening to King George's recent Jubilee Address, he was reminded of the occasion on which the present King's father, then the Prince of Wales, visited Harvard as an Oxford student. Rogers carried the baton to keep the 99 members of this class in order...
...Foreign Office's "Locarno Room" (the great red-&-gold, frescoed hall where the famed treaties negotiated at Locarno were formally signed just ten years ago), Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will open the Conference. The chiefs of the French, Italian, Japanese and U. S. delegations will reply to his address and many brave words of hope will be spoken. But when the gentlemen adjourn to begin their real work in Clarence House, a handsome Georgian edifice resembling a U. S. college dormitory, there will be little bravery in their hearts...
Richard is the boy who wants to right the wrongs of the Social System in a crushing valedictory address, which is interrupted, amid great applause, at the end of a stereotyped preamble. A brilliant, poetic idealist, he gets into trouble with the father of his girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...