No one dreamed of talking to me about my past lifeor America, or any of my early associationsyet I was a strangerone would have thought they might have taken a little more trouble to find some topics of general interest.

Her husband interposed in a suave and sanctimonious voice: "My dear, if Mr. Beaumaroy and the other gentleman won't mind my saying so, I've been feeling that these are rather light and frivolous topics for the day, and the occasion which brings us here.

9. To train yourself in readiness and daring of utterance, practice impromptu discussion of any of the topics in Activity 1 for EXERCISE - Discourse.

The peopleJack sagaciously remarked, in discussing the topic with Olympiaseemed made for such a climate, rather than made by it.

We will let the subject of apparel drop, and come to a topic on which you may be better qualified to speak.

1. Discuss as abstractly as possible such topics as those listed in Activity 1 for EXERCISE - Discourse, or as the following: Is there any such thing as luck?

But the goal you should set yourself, as you proceed from topic to topic, is the attainment of the power to be at your best in the first discussion.

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS WITH SOME TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND FOR COMPOSITION (Note.

Their walk into the house was silent, and their thoughts were drawn from the unpleasant topic by finding a letter from Julia, announcing her intended departure from this country, and her wish to take leave of them in London before she sailed.

Select topics from the following list for discussion or explanation: The aeroplane's future as a carrier of mail The commercial future of the aeroplane A recent scientific (or mechanical or electrical) invention A better type of newspaperits contents and makeup A better type of newspaperhow it can be secured The connection between the advertising and news departments of a newspaperthe actual condition

In conversation she was very attractive, not so much from the wit or brilliancy of her remarks as from the brightness and interest with which she entered into the topics under discussion, and from the unfailing grace and courtesy with which she attended to the views of others.

"The general subject, however, was the absorbing topic at the dinner-table.

I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on those topics during the course of five and twenty years.

Doubleday & Co., Inc. (PPW); 15Nov57; R202936. HAGGERTY, LAURA C. G. Topics in psychology.

They watch a film, have a debate or just talk on a specific topic of interest to students, like tourism, dowry, child abuse, fisherfolk's struggles or topics like marriage, love, education or parents.

On the trip the Farmer learned the Pennsylvania way of raising buckwheat and, it must be confessed, wrote down much more about this topic than about trout.

] BOOK IX His Favorite Disciple's Opinion of Him Topics on which the Master rarely spoke wereAdvantage, and Destiny, and Duty of man to man.

Mrs. Marshall-Smith, trying one topic after another, expressed an impatience with the slow progress of a Henry James novel she was reading, and Mr. Sommerville, remarking with a laugh, "Oh, you cannot hurry Henry," looked to see his mild witticism rewarded by a smile from the critic.

London's twice Praetor! scorn the fool-born jest The stage's scum, and refuse of the players Stale topics against Magistrates and Mayors City and Country both thy worth attest.

On the left is the Island of Salamis, and the straits where the battle was fought; but neither of it nor of the mysteries for which the Temple of Ceres was for so many ages celebrated, has the poet given us description or suggestion; and yet few topics among all his wild and wonderful subjects were so likely to have furnished such "ample room, and verge enough" to his fancy.

The book is one of uncommon interest, and discusses many topics beside the glaciers, though nothing that is not in some way related to them.

However, I rarely introduce this topic into my addresses, except to urge my sisters up to duty.

And this sort of prestidigitation, juggling the dangerous topic out of sight until it can be reintroduced with safety in an altered shape, is a piece of tactics among the true drawing-room queens.

In a merely initiatory definition, scientific precision is not required: the object is, to insinuate into the learner's mind, it is scarcely material by what means, some general preconception of what are the uses of the pursuit, and what the series of topics through which he is about to travel.

He feels that Dr. Granville has left him nothing to say which may not be found in his two great big books; yet the Cholera and the Polish war have supplied him with two topics throughout the whole book; and, dull as these subjects are in themselves, they have enabled our tourist to produce a rambling, rattling, frolicsome work of seven or eight hundred pages.