Word: fluent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated (by other Canadian provinces) Quebec liquor law. Though he thinks and speaks habitually in French, his English is forceful and fluent. After the first conference between paperman and premiers, President Graustein spoke to reporters...
...teas, facile biographer (Ariel, la vie de Shelley) returned to Paris from a round-the-world tour on behalf of the Alliance Française, international society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French, but it is 17th Century French, adapted...
Last week Foreign Minister Wang Cheng-täing (C. T. Wang), able Yale graduate, gloomily summoned reporters to his Nanking office. "The next three months, gentlemen," said Yale's Wang in fluent, accentless English, "will be the most critical period in the diplomatic history of China."* Reasons for Foreign Minister Whang's forebodings were: 1) Fortnight ago, just as China was settling down to a period of comparative calm, General Chang Fa-k'uei, leader of the efficient, modernized "ironsides" division of the Nationalist Army, suddenly revolted, marched his men south through Hunan Province to join...
...President Hoover appointed John Gerrit Diekema of Holland, Mich., to succeed Richard Montgomery Tobin, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Holland. Minister Diekema, fluent Dutch-speaker, is another feather in the cap of the University of Michigan...
...parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...