Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took...
...Only 10% of the teachers in schools for the deaf are deaf. Others hear and compel their pupils to try to speak. Those who learn, with few exceptions like President Kenner, enunciate in flat, dead tones. Gesticulated Rev. Warren M. Smaltz of Lebanon, Pa.: "One could wish that the thousand and one weird English dialects now imparted to deaf-mutes in school could, by some magic, be transformed into as many vocational skills. Certainly it is more socially desirable for deaf people to write their way through the world, than for them to be without means of livelihood...
...mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across a borough or two to speak at a civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes to a secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner...
Moray then walked out, returned to speak again vaguely on the Matrimonial Causes Bill, then walked toward the Throne rolling a cigaret and made as if to strike a match...
...Russians are plenty good as airmen, but they don't speak any language, apparently, except their own and never mix with pilots of other nationalities. They are grim and secretive rather than congenial...