Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A "homey" man in Washington, he lives with his family in a rented furnished house in a quiet section. His young daughters are "in society," which he shuns. He plays no golf, no cards, no craps. He sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is...
Called "Voice of the Revolution," Mirabeau, with his loud tongue and sense of drama, was an incendiary orator who said daring things at crucial moments. To Louis XVI. snubbing his assembly, Mirabeau grimly retorted: "It is thus that kings are led to the scaffold."
Nothing could have been more fortunate for the Government, for the cause of ratification, for the Prime Minister himself. The Deputies, overawed by M. Poin-caré's gargantuan logic, had given him a vote of confidence 304 to 239 on a minor issue, but they had also grown...
¶ Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton...
A business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held before the literary exercises, and then at 11.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre the oration and ode will be delivered. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York is the orator and Assistant Professor Robert S. Hillyer '17...