Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the other things which were discovered when the total came to be reckoned up were 29 victrola records, five pianola rolls, one telephone directory, one radio lond speaker, and one ton of magazines, mostly Saturday Evening Posts and Lampoons...
...been nominated for a 13th consecutive term in the House. A few minutes later, the cloakroom stirred with a grave excitement. Debate on the floor dwindled and the House fell silent. Representative Williams of Illinois entered and announced that Martin Barnaby Madden had died, suddenly, of heart disease. Speaker Longworth appointed a funeral committee of 27 members and the House quietly adjourned...
Harvard graduates of the class of 1920 listened with zest to the chief speaker at their annual class dinner in Boston last week. The speaker said...
...your own minds," said the speaker, "but Yale and Princeton haven't found it out yet. ... If there's anything you birds want to know that Harvard didn't teach you, just get it off your chests and I'll try to wise you up. . . . You boys look all right to me. Talking straight, I hope you like me. Still, if you don't, what the hell! You don't vote in Newburyport, anyway...
...speaker was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed mayor of Newburyport, Mass...