Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial, which had long since become a legal farce, drew to a close without any real evidence against the character of Mr. Gladstone having been adduced. Viscount Gladstone admitted that Mr. Gladstone often spoke to fallen women on the street, but explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took...
Premier Raymond Poincare went before the Chamber of Deputies last week and spoke of an old man in such fashion that soon there were tears in some eyes. . . . Would Messieurs les Députés recall for a moment Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis, who 16 years ago was Premier of France? Many who sat in the Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux...
James Farquharson Leys '21 spoke last night before a large crowd at the Union on adventures which he experienced travelling around the world several years...
...reported last night at the initial meeting of the 1930 crew season in the Smith Halls Common Room. C. H. Weymer '27, manager of the University eights, presided over the assemblage, at which captain Geoffrey Platt '27, Coach E. L. Brown '96, and H. H. Haines, Freshman crew mentor, spoke...
...learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall never be killed while she lives, because they...