Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Francis Pulaski, the official delegate of the Polish government at the Sesquicentennial celebration of the Battle of Savannah, will speak tonight in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock, on the subject, "Count Pulaski and the American Revolution...
...system of debating to be used in the contest with the New Jersey Law School is that of split teams, where two men from each school speak on each team, giving each school an equal representation on both affirmative and negative sides. The method of selecting teams in the University is also new this year. A squad has been selected from which a team will be chosen prior to each debate of the season. Men who do not place on an inter-school debate will have an opportunity to improve their speaking before the next debate, and win a post...
...terrible hours Senator Bingham spent on the witness stand before the Senate Lobby Committee explaining, trying to explain and justify Eyanson. Savage and sneering was his examination by Senators Walsh, Caraway and Blaine. When he attempted to speak in self-defense, Senator Walsh jerked him up with: "The trouble you're in now is due to the fact that you talk too much." He writhed in his chair and his cheeks were crimson in contrast to his white hair as the investigators spoke of "falsification" and "serving two masters...
...From a public telephone several hours later call the great man's home, speak for the jewelry firm, explain that the rings were delivered by mistake and that a salesman (name given) would call to whom, upon identification, the rings should be returned...
...they have received no fair share. Speech of the Week. At the State Dinner in Canada's Parliament House, candid MacDonald revealed a trifle of what had passed before the log fire at "Kingsmere." Host King, a stickler for Canada's rights, had warned him not to speak possessively of "our Dominions" or "our Colonies." With a twinkle, the Mother Country's Prime Minister