Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still nursing that grievance was "General" Ottinger when he turned up one night last week to speak at the Republican Club of Astoria. L. I. Presumably repeating a conversation with the nominee, he croaked: "Governor Landon believes prohibition is a State and not a National issue. Alf M. Landon may not take a drink in a Dry State but he will in a Wet State...
...Governor Landon speaks in clear and bold terms, facing specific problems and taking his stand unequivocally on the side of this true economic liberalism, The Sun will support him, no matter what his prospects may be. If he does not speak in clear tones, The Sun intends to continue to fight for ideas that it believes to be sound and in the interest of the people, and will make the best of a situation in which it cannot advocate the election of either candidate...
Messiah's Message. Suspense having been nicely built up in Nürnberg he arose to speak at last-Der Führer. This year the haupttribüne or grandstand for distinguished Germans privileged to sit behind the Realmleader was 1,000 feet wide and the pedestal from which he speaks had become a lofty pinnacle. With blaring bands, solemn chanting, clockwork goose-stepping and dramatic searchlight and spotlight work, Adolf Hitler was made to appear more than ever what in fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before...
...hearts with an utterly inexpressible tumult of afflicting and conflicting feelings and emotions. . . . You have been robbed and despoiled of all things. You have been hunted and set upon to death in cities and villages, in dwellings of men and on mountain tops. . . . These tragic happenings in Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, of all culture, of all civilization, are being menaced. This menace, it must be added, is all the more serious, more persistent, more active, by reason of a profound ignorance...
...hosts, after so long of writing to you from such a distance that I can say almost anything I like with the certainty that you will have the hell of a job to prove that I am not making it all up to play an away game, so to speak. It is galling to my poetic imagination, so happily occupied in the fascinating pastime of creating a figmentary sort of university life three thousand miles away, to have to write in and presumably about things to which you knew the answers long before I did, to be brought from...