Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Abraham Lincoln had spoken the last words of his first inaugural address, he leaned over and handed his copy down to a young newsman named Crosby Noyes, told him to get it set in type. Washingtonians have been depending on the Noyes-edited Washington Evening Star ever since. Rich, reserved and respectable, the newspaper has become as solid a Washington institution...
...DaGrossa, the Crusader coach, learned his football from Dick Harlow when the Crimson mentor was directing Colgate's squad. DaGrossa, who has spoken to almost as many high school assemblies and chamber of commerce dinners as Jimmy Conzleman of the Chicago Cardinals, favors a single-wing offense that is very similar to the formation employed by Harlow...
That was in May 1942, in the darkest hour of the war. General Joseph W. Stilwell had spoken bluntly and honestly; and he was determined to go back to that lost Burma...
This militant mouthful was spoken by ex-Captain Charles Killian Woltz, 32, on behalf of a team of 50 Lutheran war veterans in Richmond, Va. It all began in a veterans' Sunday-school class, which soon turned into a weekly bull session on the state of the world judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their...
Amiable, soft-spoken Chairman Woltz, who was onetime editor of the University of Virginia's famed Law Review, and commanded a Negro antiaircraft battery in the Pacific, is also campaigning to reform Richmond's antiquated city government. Said he last week: "We are determined not to be just another Sunday-school class. We definitely want some action and are going to keep doing something...