Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting in the back row, Senator Guffey listened with careful unconcern to the Wheeler vituperation, but when Wyoming's O'Mahoney began to speak his face turned gradually bright red with rage. Said Senator O'Mahoney...
Main feature of Raleigh romances has been that, since none of the brides could speak English and none of the bridegrooms French, all have been conducted in a "sign language," about the efficacy of which, through an interpreter, brides and bridegrooms last week were equally enthusiastic...
Still hunting for a last minute compromise that might avert a major conflict Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese Ambassador to China, hustled to Shanghai, refused to speak to any but Japanese newspaper men. Finally he issued a statement...
...France's bouncing Edouard Herriot, Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori had called together a ten-day international Congress on Education & Peace...
...sorry some day. Realizing now what a "dangerous and artificial girl" she was, he congratulated himself on his narrow escape, vowed he would thereafter confine himself to friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed up in Suzanne's plot to marry him. Rousseau said he would speak to Gibbon, but was glad an accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne invited Gibbon to the house frequently, kept tabs on him the rest...