Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk the businessmen and schoolmen were farther apart than ever. Messrs. Houston & Co. accused the educators of threatening U. S. Liberties. Confessed Professor John L. Childs (chairman of the committee that "clarified" the issues) : "I for one, in my work, daily am letting business down, for it seems to me that...
...persons on hand, listening to anarchists denounce the brutality of the police and demand the eight-hour day, but by ten there were only a few hundred. The mayor, who had waited around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing his talk when a delegation of 180 policemen marched from the station a block away to break up what remained of the meeting. They stopped a short distance from the speaker's wagon. As a captain ordered the meeting to disperse, and the speaker cried out that it was a peaceable...
...show dragged on, however, with a little talk by Margot Grahame of "Lady at Large," who ended with the farewell of, "May roses blossom in your heart, so I may gather them when I come again...
Sally Rand, minus her bubbles and fan, will lecture 1941 on ethics, presumably, in a talk entitled "How to be Intelligent Though Educated." In order to appear, she is flying from Baltimore, where she is rehearsing for a legitimate play. She has been quoted as saying that her object was to "make Daniel Boones of the Freshmen...
...achieve stability in Harvard, there are several items for the Freshman to hold in mind. Boston's domination of the University has been long and penetrating; its old and often narrow attitude tears at an outsider's mode of talk, dress, and thought. This influence should be resisted if it attacks a man's "region of friendly ideas," or the opinions and principles he has formed from past experience and home environment and has held since adolescence. Nevertheless, most Freshmen strange to Boston will be affected by its quaint reserve and quiet individualism. That is but natural...