Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberal Club in the New Lecture Hall today at 4 o'clock, Norman Thomas will deliver his annual lecture at Harvard. He is expected to attack the existing order in Washington and its leaders with vigor. Mr. Thomas, despite his faith in the doctrines of Socialism, always manages to convey to his listeners a refreshingly new outlook...
...Freshman and Sophomore years do not, in general, know where their interest lie and if they did, their training has not been sufficient to enable them safely to give full sway to their inclinations. Required courses are justifiable here for two reasons. In the first place they may actually convey sufficient knowledge of a particular field to be of cultural value long after graduation. A Bachelor of Arts degree has long signified in its possessor at least a smattering of supposedly broadening subjects. Regardless of what one may think of this viewpoint, it represents an ideal which is not lightly...
...attempt to control their laughter. Dignified gentlemen sat with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...
...supporting item on the bill, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The State Versus Elinor Norton," seemed designed to convey a message; it is useless to join the army, since it is almost impossible to get killed. Incidental impressions conveyed by this drama of polite neuroses were that Hollywood has not yet run out of battle scenes, and that no matter how plentiful the circumstantial evidence, a good woman has yet to be convicted. As the prosecuted Elinor Norton, Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked...
...loyalty that they inspire in the Post-Dispatch's staff caused Editor Ross once to write a sentence which he could well have repeated last week: "To say that the Post-Dispatch . . . had a soul is to risk a cynical retort; but how can one better convey the idea...