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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boasted about it all! You say she is a Presbyterian. I wonder what other Presbyterians think of that. She looks like a good Christian woman, too, that is how insidious the Papists are, worming their crafty way into the confidence of people wherever they can. I know whereof I speak, am a Protestant, Christian churchgoer of 42 years standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...came when he was scheduled to appear on a platform in the college quad with two other students. They were going to tell just why they thought Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Howard Taft should be the next president. In this exercise in civics, John B. was to speak in behalf of President Taft. He walked in gave his speech; then locked the others out of the hall. Taft lost St. Louis, Missouri, and the election. In 1913, the next year, however, John B. was graduated with honors from St. Louis University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: These Headliners Actually Graduated | 10/4/1935 | See Source »

...Cathedral College. He eats little, grumbled about luxury when some friends had a shower bath in stalled in his house. He entertains not at all, but Papal Marquis MacDonald drops in and so does the most famed member of the Cardinal's flock?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was to speak on "Communism or Communionism" at the Cleveland Congress. Last week before departing on the Cardinal's special train, Al Smith publicly took a spray gun in hand, gave the grey stone wall of St. Patrick's Cathedral the first squirt of a chemical preparation which is to clean, harden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics in Cleveland | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Freshmen wishing to speak French and practice in conversation what they learn in the classroom will be given the opportunity when the French table at the Union is organized this week. This group will meet on Mondays and Wednesday for supper at 6.15 o'clock and will be required to use only the French language during the meal. As far as possible, waiters and waitresses serving the students will be French-speaking, other students of the language or persons of French Canadian birth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen to Organize French Table at Union This Week | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...first time as a single group, the new members of Eliot House will meet at 7.30 o'clock Monday evening in the Junior Common Room at a reception at which Roger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, and David W. Brown '36, chairman of the Committee, will speak briefly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reception Will Be Held for New Eliot Men On Monday | 9/27/1935 | See Source »

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