Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Government inspector, J. M. Carey, approached, hat in hand, spoke in low voice to the Premier. The mine was full of poisonous gasses. Rescue work, even in gas masks, was too dangerous. The inspector had ordered that no one should go down in the mine until the fumes of explosion should be pumped away by the electric ventilators. Any other course was madness, said Inspector Carey, but the wives and families of the entrapped men were getting restless. He could not conscientiously advise the Premier to remain with his wife in that vicinity...
Soon Ben Tillett, a more moderate M. P., spoke for the Labor party: "We deeply regret the demonstration against the Prime Minister at Cwm. . . . Nothing but the stark tragedy of death could have brought forward in Mr. Baldwin's presence the brutal facts of class war. . . . However much this outburst of personal resentment must be deplored, the miners righteously resent the callowness and oppression they have suffered and are suffering...
Discussing the findings of specimens of arctic fish and animals for the American Museum of Natural History on the Putnam expedition, Captain Robert A. Bartlett spoke last night at the Union on "The Cruise of the Morrissey...
...Thursday Professor Murray spoke of Sheridan's contemporary; Goldsmith. Sheridan differs from Goldsmith in his dramatic treatment of eighteenth century society in that he was brilliant, devastating satire quite in contrast to the beginnings of idealism which appear in the work of Goldsmith...
...Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Fund Council, returned to Cambridge on March 5 from the South where he had been since February 19 in the Interest of the Associated Harvard Club and the Harvard Fund. During his trip he spoke on the Fund at the Harvard Clubs of St. Louis, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., New Orleans, La., Atlanta, Ga., and Jacksonville...