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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

Swigert, the first speaker, will be allowed ten minutes, the three Yale men and the two other Harvard men alternating will speak 15 minutes each, and in conclusion Swigert will have a five minute rebuttal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE DEBATERS TO DECRY HARVARD VIEWS ON SMITH | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...Entrance of Commercial Bankers into the Investment Banking Field" will be the subject of S. W. Denio, vice president of the Old Colony Trust Company, when he speak to Business School students in the Baker Library at 7.15 o'clock this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Denio Speaks at Business School | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...hall were signs: GOOD OLD WHISKEY! LADIES MAY SMOKE! SCOTCH WHISKEY IS GOOD FOR ALL COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine interlude ended: smoke was blown in the McPherson's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecclesiastical Notes: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Tycoon Melchett rose to speak of Britain's industry, Britain's labor problems, Britain's new urge toward amalgamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tycoons | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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