Word: oratoric
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Spoke for the book in lofty, compelling periods that great Anglican Lord Hugh Cecil, now esteemed the leading orator in the House of Commons, and brother of famed League of Nations Exponent Viscount Cecil of Chelmwood. At greatest length Lord Hugh traced the practice of reservation from earliest, primitive Christian...
At the same time it was announced that Joseph Patrick Crosby '28 of Jamaica Plain will be the Tree Orator on Class Day. Charles Francis Fawsett Jr. '28 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was originally appointed to this office, but was compelled to give up the post because of unavoidable circumstances.
Last week, however, a dissenting voice, loud, strong, was raised. It belonged to burly Thomas Williams Slocum, 61, textile potentate, sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K...
At their Jackson day dinner last January (TIME, Jan. 23) in Washington, nationally important Democrats sat transported by the oratory of a mild-mannered gentleman from Manhattan. Some of them had read his most famed book, Jefferson and Hamilton. Some of them were in the habit of reading the editorials...
The late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, left an estate valued between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000. To Yale University he gave $1,000,000.