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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak the King's English, but I can swear in the English vernacular. . . . I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King v. Brains | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin. Open house is still his rule to all whom he feels are his brother tillers of the soil. A poor peasant or a rich "Fist" despised by Communists can trudge or journey to Moscow and be sure that, having waited his turn, he may speak his grievance to the Comrade President and warm his stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that he may address the President of Russia familiarly as "Tovaristch" and that the kindly, bearded face of Kalinin will wrinkle in a warm, genuine smile when he greets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...grew up in Trieste (Austrian then, Italian now) and learned to speak Italian perfectly and German with an Italian accent. There is no anecdote to account for his becoming an actor; he merely decided to be one and began to play in Prague, with Angelo Neumann's stock company. Later, he decided to go to Berlin and there he met Max Reinhardt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Professor F. P. Magoun '16 will speak on "Football in Medieval England" at a Modern Language Conference in the Common Room of Conant hall at 8 o'clock this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Magoun Speaks on Football | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...conjunction with the arrival of the American Opera Company in Boston on Monday, Professor E. B. Hill '94 of the Department of Music has arranged to have either the conductor or manager speak at Harvard to stir up interest among the students. The talk will be given in Paine Hall on Monday at 1.30 O'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talk on Opera Monday | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

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