Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interrupt a man in the middle of his life you surprise him, so to speak, in the middle of a sentence. . . . Put an unexpected semicolon there. The rest of the sentence may be entirely different." This thesis, more useful to drama than true to life, is the theme of Author Thome's pleasingly plausible novel. Wisely he sets his English protagonists in Spain, where the sun is hotter, the moonlight more insidious, where anything unusual may happen. . . . A microcosmic melodrama, of the same general type as Grand Hotel, Delay in the Sun is brightly and neatly written, almost persuades...
...unusual mind French symbolists have found inspiration for poems, Maeterlinck suggestions for dream-dramas, Jules'Verne a model for the quasi-scientific narrative of adventure, R. L. Stevenson the source for the pirate story, and Conan Doyle the pattern for detective fiction. . . . Mallarme and Valery, not to speak of Baudelaire, have recognized Poe as their master in aesthetics...
With the star of tolerance rising over the Yard, and the spirit of peace and understanding permeating to the humblest House, there is need of Wise Men to speak a carefully considered word or two. Even greater will be the need on Saturday morning, as professors eye the serried ranks before them. May there then be some to realize that because a man takes advantage of a privilege it is no indication he is unworthy of it. Just as in the arts, where what is said is not so important as the spirit in which it is said...
...meeting sponsored by the Liberal Club, John T. Flynn, noted economist, will speak about current economic problems on Monday evening at 8.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...have had no previous experience in public speaking these two courses merit your consideration. The chances are that you will have to speak at some occasion in the future and it is wise to be prepared. The chief benefit which you can derive from them is the practice of standing on your feet and talking to a group of people...