Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar to that used to catch a waiter's eye; and Premier Count Paul Teleki, chief of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, gave the three-fingered Boy Scout salute. Chief business of the opening session: a speech by Count Teleki in which he announced that Deputies' rights to speak would be curtailed...
Previously, H. Lane Blackwell, Jr. '39 had delivered the Ivy Oration to which President Conant referred, remarking that: "The Chief Marshal, Mr. Saltonstall, can speak for himself, but as far as I am concerned I can but repeat Falstaff's remark that while I, myself, am not funny, I am often times a source of with in other men. The Ivy Orator has proved that this afternoon...
...York, they lived next door to me in London. . . . The children's favorite playmate was their Uncle, the Prince of Wales. . . . Queen Elizabeth told me their uncle taught them American slang. . . . And I'll never forget the day the children came to lunch, hardly able to speak because their uncle had given them their first chewing...
...offered, and promptly accepted, a new job: president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, effective January 1. As head of the fifth largest insurance company (assets: $1,399,427,496), he will not only be able to use his genius for economy, but will be able to speak with nonacademic authority on economic issues that may be raised...
Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...