Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milman Parry will speak at 7.30 tonight in the Eliot House Senior Common Room on "The Oral Poetry of the Serbian Peasants and its connection with Early Greek Poetry...
...scheme to restore Williamsburg to its 18th Century glory. At a joint session in the austere room of the House of Burgesses, the General Assembly of Virginia saw onetime Governors Davis, Trinkle, Byrd and Pollard on the dais, heard Governor Peery and Mr. Rockefeller speak. Said pious Mr. Rockefeller: "What a temptation to sit in silence and let the past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain of the Lord's host spoke unto Joshua: 'Loose thy shoe from...
...what is being thought and written just at the moment in the outside world. One wonders, then, if the presence every month of distinguished names like T. S. Eliot, Walter Lippmann, and Ezra Pound among the contributors to the "Advocate" will not accentuate this consciousness of which I speak and which, in my opinion, is the chief source of weakness in the current issue...
...list as the woman-hating reporter who drifts into the ways of love. Walter Connolly, as Mr. Andrews, does remarkably well. But Miss Colbert is convincing in spite of playing second fiddle to Mr. Gable and because her lines are inherently good. Most of the "local color" characters speak with a labored accent but are rather picturesque...
...outstanding voice at General Johnson's NRA conference has been that of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania. In bringing up the charge that there are towns in Pennsylvania in which she was not permitted to speak in favor of the recovery program, and in giving the names of steel employees who were discharged because of their part in her labour meetings, Mrs. Pinchot has given a real and unmistakable challenge to the present administration. Mrs. Pinchot was one of the many liberals who believed in the NRA before an examination of the fundamental political philosophy could...