Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famous as the first woman in the world to sit in a court of general jurisprudence, Justice Florence E. Allen, of the Supreme Court of Ohio, will speak Sunday evening on "Adventures in Understanding," at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston...
After a few tentative beginnings one of them said, "At least there is one good thing about the Reading Period, the Vagabond can't write about lectures he's going to." Conversation began to pick up, here evidently was a subject upon which they could all speak with feeling. "I wouldn't mind it if the old fool would just put down the day's lectures and have done, but he seems to feel it incumbent upon him to unburden the secrets of his soul and his subconscious mind." "Yes," the first member was taking up the thread...
...they publish it. It is, of course, quite natural that he should feel badly at the conversation he heard, no man likes to have his nearest, dearest thoughts the butt of many an idle jest. But he is used to the indiscretion of youth, he knows how they speak in the wrath of the moment and he will pardon them. If they seek not pardon it matters little, he will go on writing whether or no. He will continue to get times wrong, to get places mixed, to misspell the names of professors. Technicalities are not for the majestic corridors...
...Harvard Liberal Club will hear Dr. T. L. Harris, adviser in Religion in the University, speak on "Liberalism in Religion" in the Lowell House Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. The talk will follow the dinner and business meeting in the House at 6.30 o'clock and is open to all members of the University...
...Holy Name Society in Boston. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, said: "I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.' No true American man would practice this base art. Of course they aren't men. ... If you will listen closely [to crooners' songs] you will discern the basest appeal to sex emotion in the young...