Word: talk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Watkins has been visiting several colleges in the United States. He will deliver an informal talk on the subject, "An Englishman Looks at American Industry". Following this there will be an open discussion. All members of the University who desire to participate may leave their names with the secretary of the Liberal Club at 66 Winthrop Street...
Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint for U. S. dailies...
Worried U. S. newspaper publishers, their budgets upset, exchanged telegrams, announced an emergency convention in New York's Hotel Pennsylvania for Dec. 9 to talk paper prices...
Moscow's smart move of withdrawing her armored trains stilled nearly all talk of intervention at Washington, London, Paris. But it was probably Tokyo which caused Manchuria's Chang to sue for a separate peace. Japan has huge commercial interests in Manchuria. In the past she has subsidized both Governor "Young Chang" Hsueh-Liang and his late, great father "Old Chang" Tso-Lin. She wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird...
...Taming of the Shrew (United Artists). When Shakespeare made characters out of medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of this cinema have done in their turn. They have created no pedantic replica of Elizabethan comedy, but a vivid, hilarious farce. They have paid Shakespeare the double compliment of using hardly a word that he did not write and of brightening his meaning with new pieces of pantomime that are exactly...