Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present at the Lenglen-Wills match at Cannes, but was close to the players in all of the New York matches referred to and know whereof I speak. I am reliably informed that Miss Wills was never within a point of winning the second set, nor did I see any of the American papers claiming that she "had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman." Cyril Tolley was close to the line, in the best position to judge the ball in the disputed incident which occurred in the eighth game with the score...
...There has appeared in the press of late and from the floor of this House much criticism of a distinguished gentleman from my home state, Mr. Edward House. I hold no brief for Mr. House; I am not authorized to speak for him in any particular, but because of such criticism I want to give you a different viewpoint from that which you have had concerning this gentleman...
Franklin P. Collier will speak at the Union on Wednesday evening. His subject will be "The Trials of a Cartoonist's Life," and the talk will be illustrated by drawings of Otto Grow, his customary vehicle of satire, and by sketches of members of the audience who will be asked to volunteer for this purpose. Mr. Collier spoke at the Union last year. At the end of his lecture, there was a rush for the drawings which Mr. Collier had dropped on the floor...
...clock, immediately following the luncheon, Mr. Miller will speak on the Bimba case which has recently attracted the attention of the entire country, and Mr. Bimba is also expected to say a few words...
...problem of the morally unadapted is to be Professor Carver's subject in Economics 8 at noon in Sever 17. A vagabond might find in such a lecture a diagnosis of himself, unless it is only his mind that is perverted. At 2 o'clock Professor McDougall will speak in Emerson D on "Trial and Error in Learning", another subject for vagabonds to hear, for the good of their self-respect. At the same time, in Harvard 6, Professor Elliott will lecture on the Protestant Reformation and the theory of sovereignty...