Word: speake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politely but without a heel-click, Colonel Hurban, who speaks fluent German, asked his callers to speak English. They demurred. He insisted. Lest he burst into Czech, the secretaries finally, in stumbling English, said they had a telegram from Berlin. Colonel Hurban asked to see it. Embarrassed, they said it was "secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced...
...Garner has a cute statement to match that one: "I am not giving a living soul permission to speak for me or to put forth my name as a candidate-but, I'm not telling anybody...
...class of 1915 will hold its first "fathers and sons" party at the Harvard Club of Boston on Thursday, March 30, at 6:30 P.M. After dinner, Bradford Washburn, '38, will speak on his mountain-climbing expeditions and will show moving pictures taken in Alaska. The cost of the dinner will be $1.50 per person. Information concerning the event may be obtained from Dwight Rudd, 10 Post Office Square, Boston...
...Lerner, Professor of Political Science at Williams and recently editor of "The Nation", will speak on "The American Democratic Experience" in the Adams House Dining Room at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Open to all members of the University, the meeting is being held under the auspices of the Adams American Civilization Group...
...psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell and refuses to speak or deal with other people. Perhaps more to the point is British Samuel Johnson's diagnosis of the craving for solitude...