Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both groups join in Sunday night forums at St. Stephen's, in which Catholics and Jews speak as well as Protestants. Other Anti-Mothball activities include dances, watermelon parties, athletic games. Jack Hart's Collegians, his semiprofessional baseball team on which he plays left field, have won 18 and tied three of their 32 games this season. Busy Jack Hart also runs an employment agency for his Anti-Mothballers...
...Dear Alben" could not be more faithful, but he is not nimble. Almost his first act as Majority Leader was to let New York's Wagner introduce the time-wasting anti-lynching bill, abhorrent to Southerners. When he was invited to speak to Washington's gay Alfalfa Club (dining) he asked Pat Harrison how long he should talk. An old hand, Pat Harrison said: "Well . . . about an hour and a half." Alben Barkley suspected nothing until, after an hour, the Alfalfans applauded when he said, "And in conclusion. . . ." As befits his plodding nature his favorite song is Wagon...
...reception at Carlin, Nev. which Senator Pat McCarran turned into a rally for himself. To Senator McCarran, too, another anti-Court plan man, the President gave the silent treatment. But the crowd saw smiling Pat McCarran beside the President and cheered him loudly, shouted for him to speak. "It's nice to see you," grinned happy Pat McCarran. Later the President publicly thanked him for several Nevada trout...
...with emotion: "Make no mistake-if we do not succeed and the World does not succeed in finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children is one at which we may shudder! We speak as if our civilization was securely based, but there have been other civilizations than ours. Tutankhamen was forgotten until he was dug up. It is very possible that the things protecting our civilization are more slender than they are sometimes thought...
...shuffling the courses so that a boy studies only one subject per year. In the first year (known as Second Form) pupils study geography -as related to literature, mathematics, world history, human relationships. Next year French is the major subject and Third Formers live in a separate house, speak only French, conduct all classes in French, master by year's end better than the equivalent of fourth year French conversation, composition, history, literature. (No other language is offered, on the grounds that it is better to learn one language well than to pick up a quickly forgotten smattering...