Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation had a. better reason to speak than the editor of the Nation (weekly), Oswald Garrison Villard, for whom pacifism is a supreme virtue.* To him, the U. S. participation in the World War was a crime-he said so at the time and had some of his writings barred from the U. S. mails-to him, the Versailles peace settlement was an atrocity; to him, the last ten years have been a mess-an inevitable mess, resulting from a noxious disease. Last week was clearly his week and he wrote with the wrath of a decade...
Thomas M. Davis and Harry Davis, brothers and real estate brokers, had not spoken to each other for six years. Nor did they speak last week in the Atlantic City (N. J.) county jail, where they occupied adjoining cells. Thomas had voted when he was not a U. S. citizen; Harry had neglected to pay his wife's alimony...
...theme of "Speak to the Earth," in the hands of a competent writer, might have been worthy of the excellent title, but the author of this novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif...
...Cogan '23 and R. P. Bullard '24, both famous for their acting in past Hasty Pudding Shows will entertain the first year men with songs and specialty acts. George Owen, the only man who has been a nine letter man since the Freshman ruling, was put through, will speak, followed by R. L. Summers Jr., president of the Freshman class. The meeting will lose with a semi-slow moving picture of the last Yale football game...
...begins to glow comfortably in the late afternoon. If he has time, let him stop a minute on the Anderson Bridge to watch the oars dip and flash as an eight pulls up the Charles. He cannot linger long, however, for Mr. Forbes Watson, editor of "The Arts", will speak at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum on "Civilized Contemporary Painting from Cozanne to Picasso...