Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
This may or may not have surprised Clark Gable. Possibly moved to speak by the approach of income-tax day, the Grand Old Man of handsome young men declared that any year he cleared more than $1,000 he felt lucky. He understood that he was getting $6,000 a week at the moment, but: "A single man pays out almost 90% of it for taxes. . . . My agent gets 10 . . . my business manager. . . ." He wasn't complaining, understand-"but people have the wrong idea about movie salaries...
...Completely legendary. After writing his famous poem about Barbara, Poet John Greenleaf Whittier was told that Stonewall Jackson did not even pass the Frietchie house in Frederick, Md. and that if he had, Barbara could not have leaned out the window to speak her impassioned lines ("Shoot, if you must, this old gray head . . .") as she was bedfast at the time. Snapped Whittier: "It seems to be admitted that Barbara Frietchie had a Union flag in her house; if she did not show it on that occasion, so much the worse for Frederick City...
Unitarian van Paassen chose to speak his piece* in one of Catholicism's U.S. strongholds-Boston (which is also the citadel of Unitarianism). The occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such outstanding religious liberals as Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Hungary's Bishop Alexander Szent-Ivanyi. At this Unitarian equivalent of a "preaching mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed...
...Speak For Yourself" is an original musical comedy written entirely by students. Craig Gilbert '47 is the author of a script "which will probably cause many to stop tracing their ancestry back to the Mayflower," according to publicity director Martin Shwartz 2G. The show's 17 songs are the product of composers John Knowles '47 and Courtney Crandall '46, with theatrical president William Scudder '48 providing all lyrics...