Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iolani Palace, where Hawaiian kings once sat enthroned, Hon. Antonio Perry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, stood by to administer the oath of office. Governor Judd delivered his Inaugural address to the mixed crowds waiting outside. That evening a dinner for 250 was served in the Governor's mansion, out of which the last and deposed Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani, was removed in 1917. Governor Judd planned as his first work of office, a month's inspection tour of the Islands...
...meeting with Mr. MacDonald followed, at Forres on Moray Firth. Two days later the Ambassador was to speak before royalty at the Pilgrims Society dinner in London. The same day, the Prime Minister was to address the dour fisherfolk of nearby Lossiemouth, his birthplace. They agreed to have both speeches touch on all-important naval reduction, and issued a joint communiqué to the effect that their speeches, when delivered, should be regarded as the starting point of a new disarmament movement in which "other naval powers are expected to co-operate...
...Dean Pound's commencement address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable...
...clock. The Senior Class will assemble in front of Holworthy and march to Appleton Chapel, where the address to Seniors will be delivered by Professor Chester Noyes Greenough...
...publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, a position he held until he became a Senator. A bookish man behind large spectacles, he writes with more force than he speaks. His speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases: "The spirit of the Constitution," "The integrity and equity of the House," "an outrage upon the Constitution," "A solemn, sober challenge to the American conscience," "self-government crumbles...