Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors speak as the prompter-manager too obviously dictates...
...last you are here, and there is not only one of you but a thousand--ten hundred men assembled in one locality, susceptible to the wiles of solicitors and to the intricacies of Harvard Square. Some of these ten hundred will find the first weekend lonely and speak to themselves of the Harvard "indifference," as well renowned as the name of Columbus. Some will find the Back Bay accent strange. Before, however, you commit yourself or form a prejudice, accept as hearty welcome the advice of those who were once in your position...
...Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college graduate or not, but there are few college graduates who can speak as well as Miss Rand. She is most modest...
...railroad men therefore considered him the weakest I. C. C. member. Today they give him credit for being serious and hard-working and since he is now I. C. C. chairman (by virtue of annual rotation of that office) they listened with attention last week when he rose to speak in Salt Lake City's Hotel Utah before 350 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners. "The logical solution of the railroad difficulties," he drawled, "seems to be one national railroad system. Such a system should result in a simple rate...
...patient self-confidence, varied by lapses into great mobility when he was exercised by a business suggestion or anxious to be effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew." . . . "No one could be so learned and wise and clever as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is certified to be by practically all the universities in the world. It's too much." And he can still clap down...