Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spoke "Miss" Doris Stevens, wedded wife of international divorce lawyer Dudley Field Malone. Keynoting for many a woman-group, she said...
...Cabinet of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke to the country, last week, through a speech which was drafted by its members but pronounced, according to custom, by His Majesty, from the Throne (see above...
...this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut, rose and spoke: "It's come, boys...
...Pasteur Medal, which were held in Sever 36 at 8 o'clock last night. The subject, as presented for discussion by Associate Professor L. J. A. Mercier, was: "Resolved, That Prime Minister Briand's proposal to the United States government to outlaw war should be accepted." Each speaker spoke for five minutes on either side of this question. The judges of the contest, Associate Professor Mercier, A. C. Sprague '21, and Associate Professor F. C. Packard '20, finally selected the following six speakers to compete in the final: C. C. Alpern '28, E. F. Clark Jr. '28, J. K. Hurd...
...play was strange, not only by reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first...