Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press does not live in Santa Monica. His home is in a section of the beach frontage known as O'Sheenie Park. And it just ain't kosher for Mr. Press to speak with authority of Santa Monica's bottles, fog or movie stars...
...sporting, TIME, to speak without knowledge of our "extravagant ballyhoo," nor is it anything but a dig to speak of our "tiny university's (fulltime students: 1,248) huge stadium." If your man was disappointed in the showing of the Eastern athletes, why didn't he say so? And incidentally his story of the Pennsylvania carnival was built around the performance of a sprint relay team from Texas and two boys from Ohio State, a member of the Western Conference. Small wonder, is there not, in being unable to write about any of your effete Easterners...
...memorial denouncing "profit-seeking economy." In turn Methodist laymen presented the Conference with resolutions to compel the Federation to delete "Methodist" from its name; to bar any bishop or Conference officer from serving as a Federation official; to lodge in a Conference-appointed commission the sole right to speak the Church's social views...
...Future of American. According to Mencken, the sky's the limit. He points out the dominant position of the English language today: in what he calls conservative figures, 174,000,000 people speak it as their native tongue and another 17,000,000 speak it besides their own. Nearest world-competitor is Spanish, with a little more than half as many. And "no other language is spreading so fast or into such remote areas." English looks like the lingua franca of the future, but probably not in its present form. What will it look like? Says Mencken...
Next Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock Lowell House will hold a dinner as a reception for its new members from the Freshman class. President-emeritus Lowell has been invited and is expected to attend. The chairman of the House Committee will speak, and the House Glee Club has been asked to sing...