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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when six feet away, low from the hips, hands at sides. Move three feet forward, watching King closely. If he extends his hand, bow again before grasping it. Wait for him to speak. Don't make a personal answer or ask questions. Before withdrawing, bow again, retreat backward (having surveyed your course for chairs, wheelbarrows or other obstacles) and bow again before leaving the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bids & Rules | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Lady Astor rose last week before a conference of 3,000 women Conservatives, to speak in favor of a Government-sponsored bill abolishing criminal floggings. She found to her surprise that not only were the majority of the women for flogging, but positively rude about it. Throughout her remarks they chorused "No!" "Oh!" "Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mixed | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...tragicomedy with which homely Fannie Brice invested it, her cool contralto and cozy curves are still cinemusically perfect. Some of the numbers old & new she ably croons and sighs: I'm Just Wild About Harry, I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (the last by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Norton, professor of Economics at the University of Buffalo, will speak in the concluding lecture of a series on "The Mobility of Labor" at 4:30 in Hunt Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madeline Mason, Poetess, to Read Own Poems in Widener | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...will be the first of two free public lectures to be held this week. The second will be given by Dr. Carleton Sprague Smith '27, chief of the Division of Music of the New York Public Library. He will speak on the "History of Music in America" at 8:15 o'clock on Friday in the Music Building. The lecture will be accompanied by the chorus of 16 voices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Washburn, Noted Explorer, Speaks on Alaskan Travels | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

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