Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant began his address at 7:40 o'clock and spoke almost half an hour. His speech was not a prepared one but strictly informal, and for reasons not revealed, was carefully guarded from the press...
Among the day's pleasures none brought the Vagabond more satisfaction than the lecture he attended at 4 this afternoon in Emerson. Mr. Conrad Aiken, poet, critic and novelist, one of the premier stylistic geniuses of our day, spoke under the auspices of the Morris Gray Fund...
...Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius of late greatly underrated...
...case with so many of his woes, Cripure got his nickname from his students. He lectured on philosophy in a small French provincial city, but when he spoke on the Critique of Pure Reason, the students changed it to the Cripure of Tique Reason, and called him Cripure. He was a huge, clumsy, nearsighted, embittered old man whose feet were so enormous no one could take him seriously. Once he had been a promising young author with a pretty yellow-haired wife and a reputation based on his The Wisdom of the Medes...
Faulty growth and development of the jaws and teeth of children are due to decay of the teeth, according to Dr. Fred R. Blumenthal, assistant professor of Orthodontia, who spoke last week...