Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went the speeches, occupying the better part of two long sessions of the convention. Colorado's Thompson, Nebraska's Hitchcock, Ohio's Pomerene, Texas' Jones were also named. Seconding speeches were intermingled with nominating speeches, handsome speeches with fiery, witty with dull, empty with honest...
...Brien's speech was 79 words long...
...Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made it a point to have his place on the program shifted to an evening hour, when more radios would be turned on. The Bowers speech began with contrasts between Abraham Lincoln and Harry Ford Sinclair and between...
...places were welcomed in their own tongue by means of painted placards whose wording was the result of much Minneapolis scholarship. Four and a half thousand autos were used to carry the Rotarians about the city; 80 typists copied registration lists so that no Rotarian might remain unnoticed. Before long all the Rotarians gathered in the municipal auditorium, second largest in the U. S., third in the world, and listened to speeches, notably one by Governor Theodore Christianson of Minnesota, who said slyly...
...Lardners and the Menckens may continue to direct their shafts against our organization and others founded on the same principles. Ridicule is the weapon ... of a poor cause. They may continue to talk about Babbitry and scorn the Rotarian virtues but Rotary International will be known and honored long after Minnesota's much-read but not particularly distinguished expatriate has been found out as the shallow, superficial, overestimated literary cartoonist that...