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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needs--more pep! Not much doing in Mem Hall these days, and it has a tendency to get behind the times and collect dust. It needs to hear a little informal singing, not just symphony concerts, but the sort of thing that will want to make those old portraits speak up and call each other by their first names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

...those who are interested in the growth of socio-political thought a lecture which is to be given today at 10 o'clock in Emerson M by Mr. Arthur Baker Lewis the District Secretary of the Socialist Party. True the Vagabond does not know exactly what Mr. Lewis will speak about, but he can hazzard a guess and so probably can most of his readers. As for other lectures, he would mention the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

...have been responsible for in its younger weeks. It is a rare occasion when he is privileged to hear lectures on two subjects as attractive to him as are the two feature numbers on his program for today. The first is at twelve o'clock, when Professor Davison will speak on Old English music and illustrate his talk with selections. This is the first of two such lectures; the second to be given at the same time on Thursday morning at the same time. Both are to be held in Lawrence Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/30/1929 | See Source »

...afternoon offers a lecture on another of the Vagabond's pet interests, the drama. Professor Hersey will speak in Emerson J at 2 o'clock on "The Modern Theatre from Irving to Hampden" and will be accompanied by lantern slides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/30/1929 | See Source »

...cried "Emperor" Cook huskily, turning directly to H. R. H., "You, sir, have done a marvelous thing. Never was I so impressed as by your speech on Christmas night. I was with two Communist friends and when your name was announced to speak on behalf of the miners' fund, they scoffed, but they listened to what you had to say and when you had finished, with tears in their eyes they put their hands in their pockets and gave what money they had to the fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Marvelous Thing | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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