Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On Monday, June 18, the annual meeting of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Bets Kappa will be held at 10 o'clock. Following this meeting, the literary exercises, which are open to the public, will begin at 11.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. President Lowell will be the orator. He...
Tugwell has been wasting his time in the class-room. He is a born political orator. The genuine objections to the New Deal he completely ignored, exactly as they have been ignored by the opposition press, which has been concentrating on the construction of some of the most elaborate and...
...Second, NRA provided a new force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive voice, his downright bearing, his mastery of histrionic pauses, of scathing comment, were used in miners' meetings to make...
"How charming!" said Mr. Lewis, every ponderous inch the orator. "How novel! But I'm afraid it would not add to the gaiety of nations." And Forney Johnston, like Patrick Hurley, left the field of battle in possession of the grim Demosthenes of coal.
Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting...