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...Treasury of Stories for All Occasions, and 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches.* Some Prochnow advice: "Do not overemphasize to the listener or reader that the story you are about to relate is an extraordinarily good one. Your praise may be too lavish . . . You should not applaud your own story. If the story you have told has made no impression on the listener, do not repeat it in a vain attempt to get some response . . . Unless you are very good at it, never use a dialect in telling an anecdote...
...exactly applaud Coach Tracy Borah* of Northeastern College, Sterling, Colo., but he is no hypocrite.'' said the Trib. "Mr. Borah has been using our want ad columns to advertise for football players, which old Northeastern badly needs, having lost four of nine games last year. He has scholarships for 33 football players, 12 wrestlers. 15 track athletes, 15 baseball players and 15 basketball players, which means that more than one-third of the Northeastern enrollment will be getting a free ride...
...reunion class had someone special to applaud on the more serious side of the program. Its own Edward Biltcliffe '30 performed as piano soloist with the orchestra playing Lisst's "Hungarian Fantasy...
Time and again, the Communists and their Socialist allies leaped to their feet to applaud and cheer. Premier Scelba sat dourly throughout. Afterwards, new President Gronchi received the Christian Democrats' party boss Amintore Fanfani and told him: "Let's hope my election will bring about a distensione in this country, which I, as chief of state, will do my best to promote." "Distensione" is Italian for easing of tension, and its advocates mean by it not only coexisting with Russia as a nation, but coexisting at home with sweet-talking fellow travelers in an old-style popular front...
...alcohol entirely but to learn to control it. This war with her own weakness is described by her daughter with a candor that never sacrifices dignity. When Laurette Taylor shows the dimensions of her victory on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie, many a reader will want to applaud. When her death comes nearly two years later, it seems not so much a tragedy as a curtain to triumph...