Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George H. Parker, professor of Zoology, emeritus, will deliver a short paper on "Neurohumors as Activators of the Nervous System." "Vibrations in Machinery" is the subject of a speech by Jacob D. Den Hartog, assistant professor of Applied Mechanics, while Henry C. Stetson, research associate in Paleontology, will talk on "The Geology of Submarine Canyons." "High Fidelity Sound from Phonograph Records" will be discussed by Frederick V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communication Engineering...
...were breaking bread in a House dining hall. There was a strange quietness about the room; the rustle of skirts and the clatter of silverware were the major sounds. Voices seemed hushed and shy. Because of the dearth of students many waitresses stood against the wall in idle talk. Spontaneously, above everything, there burst forth a song. In a moment all the girls were caroling to the diners. Applause rewarded this serenade; but that was not enough. As the remnants of the House were leaving, in a magnificent antiphonal gesture, they sang a carol for the waitresses...
Hearty in his talk with most of the mothers last week, II Duce dropped his voice to an undertone while talking with Signora Venia Errani, mother of 13, whose husband is fighting in Spain. The Dictator then delivered extempore a series of lusty remarks about fecundity so pointed that several husbands who had come with their wives blushed furiously. "You report to me" Mussolini warned his champion mothers, "if your husbands don't treat you as they should...
...will repeat his performance in Albuquerque, N. Mex. That same week in Upper Montclair, N. J., Salvador de Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will...
...most of the 200 writers who give the U. S. its surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...