Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacifist principles through the World War, helped organize the Service Committee afterward to mop up wherever possible in its wake. Good-humored, he is fond of telling stories about his Quakerism, such as how a conservative Friend, at a Philadelphia meeting at which Dr. Jones was to speak, arose and prayed: "Oh Lord, prepare our minds and hearts for the untruths we are about to hear." Once in England he used the expression "I was thinking" at a meeting, whereupon a woman said: "Rufus, thy testimony was interesting, but thee does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also...
...When all communications between the U. S. and Europe are cut off. when radios go dead, when we are forbidden by decree to speak the name of Jesus, when David, Duke of Windsor, takes an airplane to Jerusalem, then we will know the conflict is at hand...
...Boston, where "Cabots speak only to Lowells, and Lowells speak only to God," where young Jews yearn to become Louis Brandeises and young Catholics hope to be Joseph P. Kennedys, there may be no more frustrated individuals than in other cities. But in Boston an ambitious young Harvard psychiatrist. Dr. Merrill Moore chose to study the problem of suicide. By last week he had reached several conclusions, not all of them new to psychiatrists, but enlightening to laymen: 1) Suicide is "an important disease." 2) ''Its incidence can be materially decreased. ..." 3) It "is the ultimate expression...
...Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens out of a rich kid (Charles Peck), plan a gang war. When the rich...
Shanghai. At the mouth of the Yangtze is commercially and financially the New York City of China. North of Shanghai coolies eat wheat and speak an approximation of Mandarin. South of Shanghai coolies eat rice and speak Cantonese. Until 1842 the Manchu emperors refused foreigners the right to trade at Shanghai, but in that year a British fleet sailed menacingly up the Yangtze and by a treaty signed at Nanking five Chinese cities were opened for trade and settlement. Subsequently most important of them was Shanghai...