Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence, back to the Tower, and to read what W. L. Phepls spoke of Santayana. I much surprised Santayana has not dined out in ten years (for, I hear, he was a popular member of society while at Harvard) and that he does now cook his own breakfast: and that at the age of nine he could not speak a word of English but that now he is probably the best prose writer living and certainly the greatest philosopher that ever thumbed his nose at all that was the Harvard philosophy department...
Norman Thomas spoke not at Stanford, as TIME reported, but at the University of California, where a crowd of 5,000 striking students cut their 11 o'clock classes to hear him and several student speakers. The demonstration was largest in the U. S. No Veterans of Future Wars paraded. Only song was All Hail with which all University meetings are closed. The many police present proved unnecessary as the strike was conducted along orderly parliamentary lines. Only through a misunderstanding due largely to the absence of President Robert G. Sproul was the demonstration held just off the campus...
...Manhattan, home from a world tour, arrived the nation's No. 1 birth controller, Mrs. Margaret Sanger, with much to say to the Press. In India, Mrs. Sanger said she obtained indorsements from 45 medical associations, founded 50 birth control centres, spoke at 100-odd meetings and "found no opposition in India from any religious group. . . . Everybody accepted the idea that something must be done to halt the increase in population and the inevitable death of women and children...
Because the opera was supposed to be in English, the advance libretto sale had been light. But during intermission hundreds of Detroiters rushed into the lobby, glad to pay for some guide to its meaning. The second act spoke more eloquently for itself. Scene was the village square on the day of the marriage ceremonies. All the ghetto rabble was there, begging for alms, food, drink. One gay interlude came when a ragged peasant orchestra evoked a reedy little tune from the big band in the pit. Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept...
...Lansbury in Manhattan last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom gave a blue-&-white silk scarf, with an all-over design featuring the letters PAX. Before donning his scarf, and heading westward for peace meetings in 18 cities during the next month, Pacifist Lansbury spoke at a large gathering in Carnegie Hall. Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war. ... I advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First...