Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Belfast in 1912 to make such a speech. Ulster Unionists got wind of it and almost overturned the motor in which he and his wife were riding. They made it necessary for him to speak to Ulster Nationalists in an open field, heavily guarded by police. They barred him from the very hall in which he was cheered last week, as he uttered felicitous words: "I cherish the hope that some day all Ireland will be loyal, united within itself, and united to the Empire. . . . You may believe that this is only a dream...
This evening at 7 o'clock Mr. Brent Dow Allinson will speak to the Liberal Club on "The Secret History of Locarno". All members of the University are welcome to the talk, which will be held in the Liberal Club Building on Winthrop Street...
...figures of Clive and Hastings, Wolfe, and Montcalm stand out in the story of French and English colonial expansion in the eighteenth century. It was a period when Europe had enough energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds...
...speak of spring fever would be pretty bad. Nevertheless, this business of wearing no overcoat is at best perturbing. It is comparatively easy to wander from lecture to lecture when the seven minutes between them are wet and disagreeable, but with this weather the situation changes...
Brent Dow Allinson '18 will speak tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the Liberal Club on the secret history of the Locarno conference. Mr. Allinson is particularly well qualified to talk on this subject since he served as a newspaper correspondent while the negotiations at Locarno were being carried on. He thus had an unrivalled opportunity to observe the inner workings, and various phases of the conference...