Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazed and overjoyed the other morning to read an autobiography entitle "The Last Republican at Harvard" printed right on the front page. It was the work of one of Harvard's great coming authors, Mr. Fred J. Sears '42. I speak with confidence, for I have been acquainted with Mr. Sears; type of genius for years. His description of a projected single-handed attack on "those (censored) truce-breaking truckdrivers" in Boston should convince the most skeptical of his virility. I congratulate you on your policy of giving young authors a chance to try their wings: I know...
...time CRIMSON editor, novelist of Harvard life, and more recently an authority on housing, George Weller '29 will return to Cambridge Tuesday in his latest capacity, when he is scheduled to speak on "Good Houses for Everybody" in Robinson Hall Annex at 8 o'clock...
Hitler-"Never. You speak of your passionate love for peace. . . . Then suddenly you stiffen, you tighten your fists, you stick out your chin and you speak of Italian force...
Elsie Janis was back on Broadway for the first time since 1928. After years in retirement, Elsie has not slowed up. With no voice to speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...
Died. Edward W. Griffin, 69, Secretary of Alaska since 1933 and its Acting Governor in the absence of holidaying Governor John W. Troy; of heart disease; in Juneau. As he rose smiling from his seat to speak at a public meeting he toppled over dead...