Word: spokes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speakers from the Stockton, California college spoke for the affirmative on the subject: "Resolved. That Congress should be empowered to regulate minimum wages and maximum hours for industry." Contrary to general belief, the team from the sun kissed state were debating in Boston, and not from California...
...Maude Odell, 65, actress who played psalm-singing Bessie Rice in Tobacco Road; of heart disease; in her Manhattan dressing room, during the play's 1,392nd performance. Uninformed of her death until after the last curtain, Jeeter Lester (James Barton) and Ada (Ann Dere) ad-libbed ingeniously, spoke into the wings when addressing missing Sister Bessie...
Coach Jack Barnaby, substituting for Harry Cowles, who has been ill, spoke informally yesterday afternoon at preliminary meetings of Varsity and Freshman tennis candidates at the Linden Street Squash Courts...
Schoenberg's orchestration of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat will also be performed as well as one of Dr. Koussevitzky's favorite pieces, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss...
...Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches up & down the land. Last week to the aid of Dr. Jones and the Fellowship went one of the nation's most pious and eminent non-Methodists, John D. Rockefeller Jr., who spoke to Methodists in Fellowship assembled on a nation-wide radio hookup...