Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of three days, centered on the life of Christ, prayer, and the implications of the Christian way of life for the individual Christian-what willingness to carry out the will of the Lord might involve. The sex question was discussed in my hearing-just once, in a private talk which another American (male, 29 years of age) and I had about the mysterious reticence shown by the leaders of a boys' camp, which we had both attended, with regard to the facts of the biology of sex and reproduction...
...York, he refused curtly to discuss politics, seemed annoyed when Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect that General Pershing had been called from retirement to help make the U. S. safe...
...shepherds' communistic conversation caused certain punctilious critics to condemn the performance as presented in a consecrated house and one which had, incidentally, never been used for morality plays in the middle ages. Poet Masefield replied: "Would you have the shepherds talk about foot and mouth disease?" The play was accordingly produced with accompanying music by Gustav Hoist, with costumes designed by Charles Ricketts...
...next year's Freshman class, is a half sheet of hitherto unpublished notes for an address of President Eliot. The notes which are now preserved in manuscript form in Widener library are evidently a rough summary of points which President Eliot intended to bring out in an impending talk to some group of students. They give in concise form the characteristics which he thought most desirable in the college student, and also indicate several of the qualities for which he himself was notable...
...great deal of publicity has been given the two students in American universities who recently turned down Phi Beta Kappa keys and the result has been much talk and speculation among students and others as to their reasons for refusing to accept an honor so great...