Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, December 13 at 4 o'clock, M. Champion will speak of Anatole France. This lecture, also in French, will give an intimate personal portrait a the writer who is perhaps the best known literary series of his ration today. He was an intimate friend of M. Champion...
...Those who criticise the huddle should not base their criticism on the performance of poorly coached teams. A properly coached team huddles within three-yards of the ball and leaves the huddle fast. While they are in the huddle the quarterback is the only one to speak, and he merely gives the signal. Records show that the average number of plays in a game is as great with the huddle system as it was with the old system of calling signals, so the huddle does not slow up the game. As for stalling, the referee is near enough to know...
...Americans] want to know what I think of you. . . . Most of you are hampered with no traditions, have inherited neither houses nor names. No ancestry makes you pause to wonder if it is dignified for you to do this or that, to be with this man or that. . . . You speak of freedom and democracy, and yet . . . there seems to me no privacy in your American lives. Everything everybody does is pried into. ... It is strange that you who are so busy living have time for this extraordinary interest in others...
...table sat Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania. At a small table, separate, alone, brooded Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, champion of the independence of women, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was onetime Duchess of Marlborough (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29). Mrs. Belmont avoided other passengers; when asked to speak, refused; between meals sat reading. At times the book would rest in her lap, neglected, while her eyes saw far away...
...Curle will speak on "Conlad's Voyages in Relation to His Books", in Emerson D at 8 o'clock...