Word: oratore
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But Tammany had its full share of silver-tongued orators, and the greatest of them was William Bourke Cockran ("the Mulligan Guard Demosthenes"), who in 1895 befriended young Sandhurstman Winston Churchill. Through later years Churchill mentioned "the great American orator Bourke Cockran" so often that Lady Churchill threatened to walk...
¶ In Brussels, some 500 delegates to the Assembly of World Brotherhood sat through five days of speeches without either a hint of dispute or a healthy round of applause. Few speakers succeeded in rising above the grimly mirthless atmosphere of the occasion. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Paul...
Early Life: Son of a Michigan lawyer and politician, Brucker resolved to become an orator when beaten by a girl in a high-school debate, thereafter talked tirelessly (and often tiringly) fof practice. Orphaned as a boy by his father's death, he waited on table at the University...
Personal Life: Youngest of six children, Heinrich von Brentano devoted many years of his life to the care of his widowed mother; a confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an...
Looking ahead to graduation, the Class of '30 elected James Roosevelt as treasurer; Douglas Adams as poet; Albert Churchill as Ivy Orator; Wallace Harper, James Barrett, and Gardner Lewis as Marshals; Edward Warburg as Orator; Bernard Hanighen as Chorister; and Otto Schoen-Rene as Odist.