Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing new to state that people are more interested in themselves than they are in anything else in the world. Tell a man that you saw his name in a newspaper or in a magazine, or that you heard his name mentioned by some public speaker, and his interest mounts instantly. Races, no less than individuals, are interested in themselves...
...speaker at the American Child Health Association convention in Washington last week discoursed upon the characteristics of the normal child...
...speaker was Herbert C. Hoover, U. S. Secretary of Commerce...
...that to him as to all men there come darkmoments, and that the rising hour abounds with them. To give weighty decisions on China, Nicaragua, et at early hours in the morning is no pleasure; especially when buckwheat cakes and the Coolidge presidential Vermont syrup stands complacently before the speaker. Who does not sympathize with the President in his unwillingness to devote precious minutes to political topics and thus deprive the White House cheif of justice? It is a hazardous guess but there is a possibility that the Garbo is comparatively wan at the breakfast table that Milt Gross dispenses...
...Speaker Whitley (soothing) : "No doubt the Right Honorable Member merely desired to imply that the Secretary of State for India sometimes expresses himself extravagantly." (Laughter...