Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day he went down to his rocking chair in the square; every night he went home to bed. After three days his attending physician reported his pulse and temperature normal but forbade him to speak to the Press. He was presented with two bottles of blessed water from the fountain of Santa Rosa de Lima and a flag which had been borne in the unsuccessful Lares Rebellion...
...your March 19 issue on p. 14 you speak of Circuit Judge Allen as having "a cordial handshake and myopic eyes." From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted...
...shyly. When he got the job of U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State last September, William Wallace McDowell was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in Montana and could have anything he wanted, within reason. Said he: "I wanted to be Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of the mines out there were dug by the Irish. They sometimes call Butte Little Ireland. One of my friends, the late Marcus Daly, who founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was an Irishman...
George Z. Medalie, former Federal Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will speak at an open meeting in Langdell Hall this evening, under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks Law School Committee. Mr. Medalie's subject will be "Observations on Courts and Lawyers"; he will be introduced by Edmund M. Morgan '02, professor of Evidence and Common Law Procedure at the Harvard Law School...
Professor Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will be guest of honor at the Leverett House monthly dinner to be held this evening at 6.30 o'clock. He will speak in the Common Room after dinner on the subject of "Democracy and Dictatorship." After the speech, questions may be asked by those interested...