Word: talk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first meeting for 1933 hockey candidates is to be held today at 5.30 o'clock in the Smith Halls common room. L. O. Pratt '26, the newly appointed Freshman hockey coach, will be on hand to give a short talk. Pratt was defense star on the 1926 Harvard sextet and ended his college career in the victory over Yale that year in the Madison Square Garden. Last year he played with other former Crimson stars on the University Club sextet. Coach Joseph Stubbs and Captain E. T. Putnam ocC will also address the candidates...
Vigorously last week Tardieu L'Américain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...
...which he had labored many a year. It so happened that the Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented it in bad faith...
...they weren't engaged or anything. Last evening he'd told her so; in fact had gone into it at some length. When he'd finished she'd said: 'Oh, Tom, I just love to hear you talk like that! Kiss me, sweetie.' And she'd sat on his lap. What...
Playwright Pascal makes it humorously clear that his subjects talk so interminably about sex that their actions are a self-conscious mockery. Unfortunately his dialog, which gets off to a smart start and upon which the play depends, becomes banal and repetitious...