Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear him speak, though they knew the candidate from Veracruz had no chance of being elected. But Tejeda's hard bitten face and manner notably lacked the routine apathy of a Mexican Opposition candidate. Hoarsely he ranted on about the Government's "treachery against the proletariat." On the platform lolled...
...Janeiro, Diaghilev's fear of the sea kept him in Europe. Nijinsky had never seemed to notice the Hungarian girl who had attached herself to the troupe, but one day on shipboard he sent an emissary to her who said: "Romola Carlovna, as Nijinsky cannot speak to you himself, he has requested me to ask you in marriage." The ceremony at Buenos Aires was pronounced in Latin and Spanish. Neither bride nor groom understood a word of it. When Diaghilev heard the news he dismissed Nijinsky from the Ballet. A baby was on the way. The couple, who were...
...Harvard in a debate this afternoon at 3 o'clock with the University of Chicago over the network of the Columbia Broadcasting Company. Vernon Lyon and Bernard Meltzer of Chicago will take the affirmative of the question, "Resolved: That a College Education is Worth While." The Harvard team will speak from WNAC in Boston, and the Chicago debaters from the Columbia Studies in Chicago. Raymond Moley, editor of "Today," will act as chairman...
Lewis J. Johnson '87, professor of Civil Engineering, will speak on "Opportunities for practical idealism in public life" tomorrow at 7.30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. The talk will be given under the auspices of the Young Friends' Discussion Group...
Competing in the first eliminations of the Boylston and Lee Wade Elocution Contests, thirty four students will speak this afternoon in Emerson D. The declamations will commence promptly at 1 o'clock and will continue throughout the afternoon...