Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drag end of a dreary, routine day. In the House chamber, up rose Connecticut's freshman Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce to make her maiden speech. Ordinarily, in such circumstances, a new member would talk to empty seats; this time more than a third of the House remained to listen. Forty minutes later the speech was over; and an international rumpus was just beginning...
...Hull is universally respected as an estimable gentleman of the highest purposes, but the impression-under which he seems to labor-that either he or the State Department has been appointed constitutional maiden aunt to the American people is erroneous...
Representative Will Rogers Jr., of California, had made his maiden speech...
Only three times in 20 years has mild-mannered Sampson Cluse, Labor M.P. for South Islington, emerged from Parliament's back-bench obscurity and made a speech. His first was the maiden speech which tradition demands of all M.P.s. His second was when he protested against the means test for those on the dole. Last week Cluse spoke again...
...Crawford once said no businessman can make a speech because the field "has been abandoned to crackpots, reformers, politicians, nonproductive drones who live on our backs and sway public opinion by silver-tongued fireside bunk." But last week in Manhattan Businessman Crawford ate his earlier words in his maiden speech as N.A.M. president. Said...