Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-built (190 lb.). He wears his grey-blond hair in a pompadour. His hands are white, delicate, almost feminine. His clothes run to quiet greys. Off the Senate floor, he is bashful, almost silent. On the floor he makes an impressive figure when he rises to speak. His speeches, however, delivered in a slow deliberate voice faintly touched with a foreign accent, are usually heavy, pedantic, unexciting...
...series of warnings that we will be thrown in jail or "taken for a ride" have been issued during the trip by County Attorney Smith. The students refused to be intimidated and went ahead with plans for investigating the situation. We wish to speak with both operators and miners and to distribute food gathered by the national Students League to the starving families of the strikers. This is evidently regarded as a clear sign of Communistic tendencies for which Smith stated we would be immediately thrown in jail "along with the rest of the exhibits". The morale of the party...
Today at three in Sever 11 Professor Babbitt will speak on "La Nouvelle Heloise", and Rousseau's influence on literature...
Gottfried Haberler, professor of Political Economy at the University of Vienna, will speak at Eliot House at a meeting of the Politico-Economic Society on March 30 at 7.30 o'clock...
...foreign students will discuss present day relations between France and Germany at a meeting of the International Council in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight. L. J. C. Balsan 1G.B., former student at the University of Paris, will speak from the French point of view, and Ulrich Kersten grL will present the German aspects of the question...