Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day's speakers include Dr. Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogs well Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, who will speak on "Can the United States Withdraw from the International Scene?" Dr. Sprague was formerly Economic Adviser to the Bank of England and was recently associated with the United States Treasury Department...
...small place. The American Mathematical Society and the American Physical Society arranged his lecture for Carnegie Institute of Technology's Little Theatre, seating 400, then nearly came to blows over distribution of tickets. Five thousand pleas for admission poured in. Said Dr. Einstein gently: "Bah! I will speak to 400-no more. No more would understand." His subject: "A Simple Proof of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy...
...church while he elopes with his old mistress. The best man, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable), then spanks Mary with a hairbrush. These antics are intended to suggest that all three characters are urbane patricians, filled with charm and worldly wisdom. Lest the point remain in doubt, they speak exclusively in hard-boiled whimsey. When Jeff calls on Mary he kisses her and says: "Perfectly beautiful outside! How inside?" Mary: "Swell, inside." This means that Mary has forgotten Dill...
Author Van Doren's sentences sometimes have immortal longings, oftener trip up on unfamiliar hard ground. But occasionally his earthly visitants speak in character, as in these comments on their human hosts: "Unable to know good without bad, they congratulate themselves upon being the only creatures for whom both exist. Unable to live long, they claim a special beauty for their limited lives. Unable to conceive eternity, they worship time. Unable to avoid suffering and disappointment, they pretend that these are nobler teachers than felicity and truth. Unable to achieve anything better than the sorriest confusion in their minds...
...next meeting of the Society is scheduled for Wednesday, February 6. It will be the first of a series at which leading authorities on Harvard history will be asked to speak...