Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work Done. Reconvening from the Christmas holidays, the Senate last week: ¶Heard Senator Hale speak on the Cruiser Bill (see below). ¶Debated ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty...
Expectant scribes could only remain certain that when Andre Tardieu does choose to speak, he will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...
...gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole thing burst, but John Law had long ago sold...
...floods!" cried the farmer. "Save us from the waters, Divine One! The floods are rising in Saitama. Save our farms! Speak only a word to Amaterasu-0-Mikami, that She may dry up the floods...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...