Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Children, I Speak to You!" At 5:30 p.m. the day after he arrived in India the cream & gold Viceregal Train brought Lord Linlithgow to New Delhi. Out stepped the tallest Viceroy of India ever, with his 6-foot Marchioness and their three young and pretty daughters, Lady Anne, Lady Joan and Lady Doreen Hope. With cannon thundering the 31 guns of the Viceregal salute, the Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet...
This happened to strike the adult Indian children of the British Rajas straight, sincere and moving talk. Into quite another part of his address the new Viceroy tucked the following, for Indian boys and girls who might be listening in: "Children, I speak to you as your King-Emperor's Viceroy and as your friend. Remember that when you grow up it will be with you that the honor of your country will rest. I shall very often think of you. Fear God, honor the King-Emperor, and obey your parents...
When Jesus Christ first appeared to His assembled disciples after His resurrection, He told them that believers "shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents" (Mark: 16:17, 18). To many a U. S. religionist of the Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" variety, the "gift of tongues" has long been vivid reality. In recent years the taking up of serpents has gained equal favor. Two years ago in Sylva, N. C. a rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three...
...Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The former is delightful musical description of a light, joyous variety (there is no great storm or torrent as in many other program pieces with similar names). The latter is often considered the greatest of Beethoven's nine symphonies; but let the music speak for itself--it is far more eloquent than mere words...
...second year of life with a truly magnificent self-made aura of respectability. From a hasty coalition of tottering little leftist societies, the Student Union has grown, in its opinion, to where it must apologize for its bigness. All this is most impressive to the freshman who wants to speak his mind, and is being besought to don the motley of the Union--for a nominal...