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His father sent Mirabeau to schools where he had little chance of succeeding, calculating that he could thus make his ultimate destination the reformatory. Mirabeau became a first-rate orator. He also fought, went into debt, seduced his tutor's daughter at 13. When he was 16 his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Hurricane | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Silent Orator. Charley wrote first drafts* for many of Roosevelt's fireside chats. From his littered desk, speeches poured out through a hundred throats. Senators and Cabinet members provided the name and the larynx, Charley the words and the wit. The Republicans cursed him, called him "the puppet-master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Ghost | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

And who was the leader of the new party that thus threatened old Dev? He was a tall, dapper, 43-year-old lawyer who had spent his life in the Republican movement, bombing British armored cars while still a boy, commanding a brigade of the Irish Republican Army while still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Phoenix | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Dot . . . Dot. Jut-jawed Ana is a booming, passionate orator. When shouting to a big audience, her greying, boy-bobbed hair flops about her face. She usually wears quiet, expensively tailored dresses in solid colors. Occasionally, at a party, she comes out in something gayer, but she never wears jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Her Excellency | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Before the bespectacled, felthatted orator could fairly launch his speech, a contingent of over 400 University students had gathered about his sound truck. They then proceeded to cheer him lustily each time he opened his mouth.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Out-Shout Sullivan in Square | 11/4/1947 | See Source »

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