Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncle Harry is a dope. I know you will say that I should not speak this way of my elders, and I remember how you got Dad to cut my allowance in half when well, there is no need of mentioning that incident, but I think you will agree on Uncle Harry, for you always said he was a little queer...
...with Exeter today the Freshman debating team will uphold the negative of the proposition, "Resolved, That the principles of the NRA should be made a permanent part of the American system of government." James J. Fuld '37 and Harold M. Danser '37 make up the Harvard team. Each will speak for twelve minutes, Fuld discussing the governmental aspect of the NRA and Danser the economic side. There will be a six minute rebuttal...
...third of a series of four lectures on great authors, George L. Kittredge '82, Gurney professor of English Literature, will speak on "Chaucer" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson...
...speak of your labor problems again, Cambridge; don't mention unemployment after the dismal swamps your ditch-ways have been this last week. The only men working appeared to be the step-fathers of local firemen, or past grand commanders of the Elks Lodge. If there were jobs for twenty, Cambridge found one--but he had to have a son-in-law in the county jail or the mayor's office...
...Thomas spoke at Harvard during the last Presidential Campaign as part of his campaign program. On March 13 he will speak as an ordinary critic of government, and not as a Socialist...