Word: oratorically
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In 1870 Victoria Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing...
Selections from the Speeches (1900-1959) of Murray Seasongood (Knopf; $4.50), compiled and with a foreword by Agnes Seasongood. Orator Seasongood was mayor of Cincinnati from 1926 to 1930 and seems to have been a fairly fluent afterdinner speaker, but this cannot explain why the doughty firm of Knopf decided...
Vice President Nixon has told friends that he has neither the talent nor the personality to be a great orator. But by the time he was halfway through his acceptance speech-much of it memorized, some of it extemporized, all of it the result of weeks of reading and scribbling...
¶ But not quite the same steps. Havardman Clemens Morgan was Class orator, not Commencement orator, delivered his Class Day oration in English, not Latin.-ED.
Lost Prize. All Britain mourned the passing of the wild-haired Welshman who, in 30 years of public life, had never quite made it to the top. Except for Churchill, Nye Bevan was the greatest orator Britain has known in this century. His lilting, cadenced speech struck passion into friends...