Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the Doctor and the President do not speak each other's language, Fran Doktor Einstein had to translate when her learned husband said, 'Boating and sailing are my principal hobbies...
...read TIME, admire and covet FORTUNE; TIME must be right. Is it? Or does the Doctor speak only in logarithms...
Victims: 1) A young lady whose three weeks in Paris have made her forget how to speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity...
Wrote Westbrook Pegler who, at $35,000 a year, earns about 10? a word for his United Feature column: "The piece has been accumulating compound interest, so to speak, for more than 60 years.... I have heard of Mr. Tennyson that he made a contract to sell his entire output to one publisher at a flat rate of $5 a word, sight unseen, and that the publisher suspected him of bad faith when Mr. Tennyson wrote "Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones...
President and Mrs. Conant will leave Cambridge tomorrow afternoon for a trip to the Middle West, where President Conant has two speaking engagements. On Tuesday evening he will speak to the Harvard Club of St. Louis, presumably to elaborate the ideas of his report, although no subject has been announced. He will go to Chicago on Wednesday, there to attend the Iuncheon of the Executive Committee of Associated Harvard Clubs, and on Wednesday evening will speak to the Harvard Club of Chicago. The Conants will return to Cambridge on Thursday...