Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...admirable. Its editor, M. Stephane Joseph Vincent Lauzanne, will speak in the New Lecture Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. M. Lauzanne is likewise an officer in the Legion of Honor. He is a man of reputation in his country, and that country now sends him to us to tell us something of France's story, her present situation, and her hopes. We have all read to a certain extent, but reading is tame sport compared to hearing. Tonight we have a man who knows and who has the personality to impart what he knows with great effect...
...Lauzanne will speak on "France Under Arms." He will tell of the spirit of his country during the past four years. As editor of the Paris Matin, one of the best-known European newspapers, M. Lauzanne has become one of the leading figures of French politics. He is in this country on a mission to show the people of the United States the view that her ally has taken in this war. In addition to being a prominent editor, the speaker is an officer of the Legion of Honor. Tonight's lecture will be open to the public...
...these political reformers turn their attention more to the abolition of corrupt practices, of the factors which all thinking men would like to see removed from elections. The men who have the confidence of the people will be kept in office. It approaches fanaticism for oracular persons to tell the inhabitants of a nation which has thrived under a party system to disguise their feelings temporarily and admit that their whole form of government is unequal to emergencies...
...Where on earth do you think I am? To tell the honest truth, I'm not on earth at all. I am 5000 feet in the air! All alone! The engine is making such a noise that I can't hear myself think, but it is very smooth up here at 5000 feet, so I can run this 'bus with my left hand and write to you with my right! I am beginning to think that I am some aviator now, because I can go up and write letters...
...Faxon, president of the class of 1921, will preside at the festivities, and will made a short address. J. A. Sessions, class secretary-treasurer, will also speak, and J. M. Mitchell, who is chairman of the 1921 Third Liberty Loan Committee, will tell of the part the class will play in floating the new bond issue...