Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object." And the Kingfish had to go along on his own lungs: "I do not like to take up 15 hours' time with the galleries getting empty and nobody to listen to me. The floor is getting thin; very few Senators are here, and I hate to speak to a small crowd like this...
Thirty nine Seniors were elected to the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa last Saturday. The annual meeting and literary exercises of the Chapter will be held on Friday. At a performance open to the public, Walter Lippmann '10 will speak, Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will deliver a poem, a prayer will be given by the Reverend Henry B. Washburn '91, and the double quartette of the Glee Club will sing. Later in the day a private meeting of the Chapter will be held to which the public will not be admitted...
Under this rule most U. S. Medicine is practiced out of sight and sound of the rest of the country, and brave or foolhardy is the doctor who dares to speak out to the laity on a particular medical or surgical case, a disease or treatment, a research project. As a result Medicine, by & large, has the worst press relations of any U. S. profession...
...thereby be added to those occasions, now coming more and more into season, on which they ride full tilt across the campuses of America, mounted on such noble horses as UNAMERICAN and SUBVERSIVE and UNPATRIOTIC, and hunting down foxy Communism and Fascism. The air is already filled, so to speak, with their cries of "yoicks," and occasionally there is a 'view halloo" as they sight the brush in the form of some anti-war demonstration or students' political organization...
...Russian Revolution 1917-1921 is likely to have a sobering effect on those who speak glibly of revolution, since Author Chamberlin is at pains to show how much explosive resentment had been stored up in the masses before it took place, how much agony followed it. His last chapters become a cumulative catalog of miseries as he writes of the civil war, when Reds fought Whites on a great fluctuating battle-line that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea, while famine and typhus were triumphing behind the lines. Unpopular though...