Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop more interest in its activities, the Debating Council will hold an open meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of adams House. James P. Boxtor, associate professor of History and Master of Adams House will speak at the beginning of the meeting...
Harlan T. Stefson; Research associate in Geophysics, will speak this evening at 8 o'clock on "Exploring the Stratosphere." This is the second of a series of five lectures being given at the Geographical Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue. His talk will be illustrated...
...Reginald Fitz '06, associate professor of Medicine and University Marshal, will be the guest of Winthrop House at dinner Thursday evening, December 5. After dinner Dr. Fitz will speak in the Senior Common Room; his topic will be "A Doctor's Life May Be Adventuresome...
Edward F. ("Ned") Hutton, rich stockbroker and board chairman of General Foods Corp., likes to speak his mind on business and politics. Sometimes Mr. Hutton's phraseology lets him in for public trouble. Last summer, in sounding off against soak-the-rich taxes, he declared that today he considered himself "70% slave and 30% free." Thereupon Columnist Westbrook Pegler mused: "This undoubtedly is true on the basis of his tax returns, but there is no denying that such slavery has its little compensations. Mr. Hutton's slave quarters in Palm Beach might be called a model cabin...
With Napoleon in Russia begins in 1811, when Napoleon, confiding in no one, had already decided to go to war with Tsar Alexander. When Caulaincourt, who had been Russian Ambassador, warned him against the war, assured him that Alexander wanted peace, Napoleon said, "You speak like a Russian." Napoleon insisted with mixed irritation and playfulness that Caulaincourt had become Alexander's man. Forthright, convinced that the plan was suicide, Caulaincourt persisted even after he had been publicly humiliated by Napoleon, snubbed at receptions, rebuffed in his plans for marriage...