Word: expounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen years ago that five Chicago tycoons sat down in an Evanston living room to listen to an energetic, bright-eyed little woman expound an idea. Mrs. William Bradley Walrath was talking from experience. Few years before, a relative who had lost a child at birth asked her to find another to take its place. When Mrs. Walrath did so-in a Chicago maternity hospital-other people, for one reason or another childless, commenced asking her to do likewise. When she had placed 90 babies for adoption, she was confronted with a discovery that has never ceased to cause...
...dollar watch, stood up, hurried out into a blazing sun. Waiting beneath a tree in his orchard were Mr. & Mrs. James Henry Roberts Cromwell (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke). Gandhi shook hands, led them into a bare cell where they all sat on the floor. Voluble Mr. Cromwell began to expound his economic theories, argue for a "reformed capitalism." Gandhi thought that in India that would make a bad situation worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said impressed her. Suddenly a messenger burst in to say that the leaderless conference...
...Seattle last week Superior Court Judge Howard M. Finley soberly heard churchmen expound the quality of a bishop's "godly judgment." Since the Episcopal Church drew up its constitution in 1789, its Canon 42 had been brought into civil court only once before-in New Jersey in 1893. Tortuous and hedged with ambiguities was the question Judge Finley was to decide: had Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston the right to oust Rev. Charles Stanley Mook from Trinity Church without taking counsel with the Standing Committee of his diocese...
Wielding the gavel will be Frederic A. Webster '35, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association; E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Student Council will expound its aims and activities; for the CRIMSON, President John H. Morison '35 will carry the torch; Francis D. Moore '35, president of the Lampoon, Howard H. Mason '35, president of the Advocate, John C. Haggott '35, president of the Dramatic Club, and Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, president of the Mountaineering Club, will speak for their respective organizations. William G. Kirby '35, president of the Glee Club will speak both for the Pierian...
...charges that he was treating it as President Hoover had treated the Wickersham report on Prohibition, he had but two choices: 1) to dissolve the Darrow Board or 2) to continue providing Mr. Darrow with a free forum from which to attack the Administration's Recovery program and expound his own Socialistic ideals...