Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year old wedding cake is such a masterpiece of Hollywood cobwebbing that even Pip, when asked what it is, says "dunno Mum. . ." Phillips Holmes achieves an accurate and gloriously irritating cockney accent of such poignancy that no one is more relieved than the audience when he finally learns to speak like a gentleman. He is union persuasive as the blacksmith's apprentice but is the epitome of gentility when be waltzes at Richmond House...
...without his flashing smile, he boarded the train that took him back from Hyde Park to Washington. On the train he received his entourage of newshawks. Sitting erect, foursquare, with the bearing of a victor, he answered questions, but declined, with the same gleam in his eye, to speak of his victory. His only post-election comment was a commendatory reference to an editorial by Editor Cleveland Rodgers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.* Whether uncrowned King, Moses, or lover, he was going forth to play his part with the confidence that his part would be whatever he chose to make...
With equal deliberation and determination he let his acts speak for themselves...
Louis Untermeyer, noted critic and poet, will speak tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the subject "Modern Poets and Modern Poetry." This lecture, to which the public is invited, is given under the auspices of the Cambridge Poetry Forum...
...poetry entitled "Modern American and British Poetry." One of his latest books is "The Last Pirate," consisting of stories from the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Mussolini recently awarded him a cash prize for a children's book picturing Italian life. Tomorrow is the only time at which Untermeyer will speak in the vicinity of Boston this year...