Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today I says to Mrs. MacIntosh, I says, "I don't like the looks of that boy; no sir, I don't. And if I find his clothes all over the room again or have to sweep up any more gin glasses, I've a very good mind to speak to him. You bet." Macky laughed hard at that (I see she has a new gold tooth); the old for would, since she ain't got any one as bad as Mr. Fathead...
John Reed Kirkpatrick, former Yale All-American end and one of Yale's all-time greats, and at present president of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, will also speak...
...because the people of the United States under modern conditions must, for the sake of their own future, give thought to the rest of the world, that I, as the responsible executive head of the nation, have chosen this great inland city and this gala occasion to speak to you on a subject of definite national importance...
...amiable citizens who had gathered to hear the President speak a few words in praise of their fine new piece of public works, soon found to their surprise that they were about to hear a stirring speech on international affairs. Before the President had reached his peroration, more astute members of the crowd realized that they had been chosen to hear the first announcement of a new U. S. foreign policy...
...four-year-old A. F. of L. .boycott on German imports. President Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical Union even suggested a 30-day jail sentence for purchasers of Japanese products. Mr. Howard, who provided the convention's only excitement, was out of order in speaking up at all in Denver, for the reason that the convention refused to seat him. So far he has successfully kept one foot in each Labor camp-by being both secretary of C. I. O. and head of a union which is in good A. F. of L. standing. His Typographers...