Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illness, Dr. Ortega y. Gassett, well known political philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Madrid in Spain, will be unable to give the annual public Godkin lectures at Harvard next month. Word to this effect has been received by the University from Dr. Gasset, who has been living in France since the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. It is expected that no substitute lecturer will be named to take his place...
Last week word of the Thomasites' plight reached the U. S. through a letter written to School & Society by one of their number, Gilbert Perez of the Bureau of Education at Manila. After denouncing both the Philippine and the U. S. Governments for "an amazing piece of neglect and ingratitude," Oldster Perez concluded with a poem on The Thomasites. Excerpts...
...Kingston "Promised Land," Father Divine disavowed the man who had lived in his Harlem heaven and whose confessions of sexual misdeeds had proudly been spread in the official Divine Spoken Word. Meanwhile, in Pasadena, G-men found odd evidence linking Hunt and Divine and indicating Hunt's status in the cult. This was a partly-completed "throne car," being built by a coach works. It was to cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and specifications called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats...
...dancing bananas marked Dictator Taylor's presentation last week. But there were "re-enactments" of Coronet articles on: the disappearance of the moon, in which a male quartet sang a moon-song medley with grunts substituted for the word moon; how to avoid suicide, in which simulated voices of persons about to kill themselves were broadcasted. Tonic effects included a symphony drowned out by coughers and miscued clappers; an outdoor opera eclipsed by bullfrog croakings, yowls of cats, dogs...
...appear. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer is selling 200,000 volumes a week of the Standard American Encyclopedia whose A volume has a complimentary column-and-one-half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe a typical Journal reader. Mr. Annenberg's books haven't got that...