Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faithful to his tradition, he did not speak for the microphone but answered questions by whistling and pantomime...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
...Hemingway and the novels of Dashiell Hammett), he was amazed at the remoteness of U. S. writing men from world problems. In Hollywood he made three money-raising speeches, made a bigger impression on Hollywood's writing colony than any recent visiting celebrity except Hemingway. Aloof, he would speak only through an interpreter, cocked a quizzical, disapproving eye when his French was badly translated. His hosts saw him unbend only when he ate his first alligator pear and when he got tight in Los Angeles' Olvera Street...
With cheering and applause an audience of 10,500 that packed the Boston Arena at yesterday afternoon's Communist rally answered Granville Hicks '23, Counselor in American History and Literature, when he asked, "Is it contrary to Harvard's traditions for me to speak the truth as I see it, and to serve mankind in the way that seems to me best...
Hicks May Speak...