Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself-spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings...
Speaking in behalf of the undergraduate members, C. G. T. Lundell '27 expressed appreciation of the service rendered by Mr. Tibbetts, and at the close of his address presented the resigning secretary with a wing chair, the gift of the undergraduates in the Cabinet. G. G. Wilson '25 spoke for the graduates, and reiterated Lundell's sentiments...
...Thus spoke James Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the British Labor party last week at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
Last week a conference of the executives of British non-self-governing areas convened in London to discuss this and other projects. Most of those present were, of course, Governors of Crown Colonies. To them spoke their Chief, Right Honorable Leopold Charles Maurice Stennet Amery, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies...
...annual conventions of the Episcopal Diocese of New York previous to the 144th convention last week, priests and laymen used to rise in courtesy to every woman who spoke'. The custom was as bothersome as seems to many men their rising in a cinema show every time the U. S. flag appears in a newsreel. Last week Bishop William T. Manning of the diocese told the men to keep their seats; the women would be tolerant. He also remarked that he would preach the sermon July 3 at the 1,300th anniversary of York Minster Cathedral * in York, England...