Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle class is not going to keep very much longer whatever it has that separates it from the lower class," claimed Granville Hicks '23, counselor in American History and Literature, in a speech at Wellesley College last night...
...must be difficult to pontificate on the daily happenings of this hectic would and one sympathizes with the columnist's tendency to formularize. But when the keynote speech of the head of the Democratic party is "simplified" into a Republican tract, the time has come to warn the ingenuous author that the reading public draws the line somewhere...
...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...grooves. Widow Nieman, who had a taste for gin, would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After one long-winded speech from a guest economist, Fellow Ed Lahey rose and inquired: "Would you mind summarizing the point in ten thousand words...
...Lahey, who already knows most of the Cambridge cops by name and won enough from his fellow Fellows in a poker game to buy a ton of coal, has begun to educate Boston. When newspapers there began yelling for Granville Hicks's resignation because he made a fundraising speech for the New Masses, Fellow Lahey defended him with a letter which exposed some city editors' secrets and made the Transcript front page: "Twenty-five cents in telephone calls from a newspaper office will create a 'public clamor'. . . . Every newspaper office has a standing list of windbags...