Word: oratore
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By the time Goodie graduated, his father was in financial difficulties, unable to send him to college. Goodie went to work as a single jacker in a Nevada mine, pounding out blast holes with a sledgehammer ("Very good for the shoulders,'' says Goodie) and saved enough money to...
If Gilbert and Sullivan productions were supposed to approach realism, I would have to say Mr. Greene is somewhat wooden, and that Mr. Sperry reads his lines like a Sunday orator. But what Gilbert thought of as sentiment is now considered silly, and the overdone speeches fully contribute to the...
...shining example. It was a whopping success; George decided that the law was the field for him. Medals & Mobs. He went to Mercer University (which, in 1947, named its law school after George), won medals for extemporaneous speaking four years in a row, took the Georgia and Southern States oratorical championships in his first year of law school, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and received his law degree...
Diplomatic Miracle. Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a...
Last week the news out of Turin was that for the first time since World War II, the anti-Communist unions had won a clear-cut majority of the shop stewards. The vote surprised everybody, including the Communists themselves. They had sent in their leading labor orator, Giuseppe di Vittorio...