Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gershwin's own deft language, "I'm seeking phrases to sing his praises." But, better -let him speak for himself to show your reviewer Mr. Gershwin has not only the lightest touch in the business but also the most penetrating...
...went to Northampton in 1917 from an English professorship at Harvard, where his tall German wife Elizabeth had been snubbed by War-minded faculty wives. Stanchly liberal, Dr. Neilson defended Sacco & Vanzetti, early advocated the recognition of Russia, invited such figures as Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to speak at Smith...
...wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn't learn English until he was nine; and then he learned it "by ear". He knew the music of the language long before he knew its construction. Personally, I've never heard anyone speak purer English...
Distinguished as the only woman to have held a faculty teaching appointment at Harvard University, Dr. Alice Hamilton will speak this evening before the last meeting of the year of the Boylston Chemical Club. She will introduce a discussion on Industrial Poisons in Mallinckrodt MB-9 at 8 o'clock...
Lucky are the people ashore who, when their work is done, can seek recreation in a restful change. Lucky are they who have the movies, the theater, the fights, the hockey games and other amusements to take their minds off the troubles of the business day. I speak not of them. I do, however, raise a meek voice for my shipmates and myself, who, when eight bells go and our long watches are over have nothing but a monotonous view of sky and water to greet our eyes. Day after day and night after night we come below...