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Word: oratorical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alibi. Since it is unpleasant for any Great Power to have to offer its money at cut rates, the excuse of dire emergency is always offered in such cases, and Orator Daladier went on the air with this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Shot in Democracy | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Orator Mussolini recently boasted that Italy today has the largest, most powerful submarine fleet in the world. German Navy experts in the entourage of the Führer said they believed there had never been such a submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

For years people have been singing "I wonder what's become of Sally," and now the newspapers report Miss Rand as an orator before a group of Harvard boys seeking higher education.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

Anthony Eden, after staying with his sister on the French Riviera since his resignation as Foreign Secretary, quietly returned to London, last week made a little speech. "I am a convinced believer in democracy, yet it would be foolish, perhaps fatal, to the very survival of democracy to ignore the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eden for Unity | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elixir of Rearmament | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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