Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days no book was cracked, no lecture delivered, and Kalamazoo College was shut tight while campus soapboxers demanded popular Professor Ganong's reinstatement. At the second day's end President Cole withdrew the dismissal notice, promised to discuss the professor's future status with the student senate and leave the final decision to the board of trustees. Thereupon Professor Ganong and students marched back to classes...
...Salvador de Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with...
...minor-league conclave moved on to Chicago last week for the major-league meetings. The National League promptly proceeded to make no news by re-electing President Ford Frick for three years at $27,000 per year. To the meetings of the overlords went U. S. baseball manufacturers to discuss balls of varying degrees of deadness, which had been tried out last season. The National League, which thought the American League was bound to follow its choice, forthwith voted to adopt the No. 4 ball, one degree deader than the ball used last year, on the theory that a deader...
Waters sing, numerous varicolored name-bands play, watch dusky, graceful Marva Trotter (Mrs. Joe) Louis and white, gracious Irene Castle McLaughlin model their own clothes. Last week Mesdames Louis and Castle met to discuss plans, pose for pictures...
Because publishers have tried to make capital of books that he is reported to enjoy, President Roosevelt refuses to discuss what he reads, let alone what he likes to read. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who took an active interest in current literature, found jobs for struggling poets (including Edwin Arlington Robinson), and scribbled notes to young magazine contributors whose pieces he liked, Franklin Roosevelt pays little attention to creative writing. Unlike Presidents Hoover and Wilson, he reads few detective stories...