Word: demostheneses
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Drafted, willingly, into politics by his good friend Winston Churchill shortly after Munich, he made such a name for himself as a top administrator (he planned Britain's remarkably smooth transfer to severe rationing) that he was soon in the key Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a...
The Second Part, usually done before a curtain while the first act scenery was changed, was a vaudeville known as the Olio (supposedly derived from the Spanish "olla" as in olla podrida, meaning hodgepodge). A regular feature was the stump speech by the Black Demosthenes (or someone of similar title...
Call to the Conquered. Few orators since Demosthenes have evoked the emotional quality of the Prime Minister's great exhortation to the conquered. "Do not despair, brave Norwegians: your land shall be cleansed, not only from the invader but from the filthy Quislings who are his tools.
Hardee stole the show for accuracy with his performance of "Jabberwocky" which was worthy of Demosthenes, while Professor Katz was stumped by the second verse of "America" Confronted with a recitation of poems in a foreign language, Dean Landis took a stab at French, but settled finally for German.
His father and mother (who had borne Henry in 1874 in a covered wagon near Winnemucca, Nev.) had trekked to Flagstaff, Ariz., where the elder Ashurst went into the cattle business. Summers, young Henry punched cows, more often tethered his horse and strode around the lonely Arizona landscape, exhorting the...