Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle seat. There is a joke in The Little Show about Calvin Coolidge at the insurance company meeting. The comedian says: "When he opened his mouth to speak, six moths flew out." When the lady in the aisle seat heard that, she clutched her handbag and said: "They have no right to say such things...
...permission to hold it in Alumni Hall. Then Pittsburgh's Chancellor John G. Bowman decided and declared that the Club was using the University's name to propagandize. He revoked the permission. Sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College, who was to have spoken in the hall, agreed to speak anyway, anywhere. The Liberal Club found a vacant lot for its meeting. For holding the meeting at all, the club was abolished...
...clock, the Assembly will be formally opened. The routine business of election of officers and the discussion of plans for permanent organization will be completed. Then Professor C.J. Friedrich will speak on disarmament and present a radical resolution on that subject. Discussion will follow which will be interrupted at 5.30 o'clock for dinner...
When Mr. Dawes removed his pipe to speak, his words were still those of a dollar doctor, a caustic budgetarian. In words scarcely those of a diplomatist, he announced loudly enough for every foreign country to hear him, that if the Dominican Republic adopted his commission's recommendations it would be the first independent nation to have a thoroughly modern and scientific budget system...
...Tuesday morning, at 9.30 o'clock the Overseers will meet in the new Courtroom of Langdell Hall and there the visiting committees will make their reports. After the business meeting, Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School will speak on "Alums and Problems of Legal Education." Professor M. O. Hudson will explain the research in International Law and Professor F. B. Sayre will speak on the aims and plans of the new Institute of Criminal...