Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Pierce Hall, Room 110, Professor C. H. Berry will deliver the sixth and last lecture of a series of popular lectures on engineering. The subject of his talk will be "Modern Steam Machinery...
Statesman Stimson gave a second talk on the peace and contentment of the Philip pines. Some rude soul asked him about their independence. Ever diplomatic, Statesman Stimson replied: "Mr. Hoover's election was received with great enthusiasm...
...hundred years ago an Oxford student wrote to a friend at Cambridge suggesting a boat race between the two universities. Came the answer: "Your impudence is unparalleled. The sufficiently candid manner in which you talk of 'lasting us out' (!!!) amuses me so much that I am ready to die of laughing. . . ." So the first Oxford-Cambridge race was arranged...
While he was bored by free verse and cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered. He played golf reasonably well, and did not often talk about his scores. He liked fishing in Ontario, but never made himself believe that he preferred hemlock bows to a mattress. He was common sense apotheosized...
...brewed his way into millions and respectability, Fran was. nevertheless, poised and luminous. She had been to Europe and to an Eastern finishing school; she had born and bred two children; aged 41, she looked a decade younger, for her hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom and insisted upon being taken abroad...