Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packed off home by air as Mr. Selter had been. The Moscow railway station was decked with Latvian and Soviet flags, a Red Army guard of honor snapped to salute and a Soviet band was provided, possibly because the Dictator rather likes M. and Mme Munters, both of whom speak Russian. He gave them a party in Moscow some years...
...course will consist of series of illustrated lectures at which the members of the Quarter will speak, tracing the rise of the string quartet and of chamber music from Haydn up to the present time. The first lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock will begin a series of twenty-four weakly lectures that will go on until January, when the quartet is planning to make a tour of the Pacific Coast, but will be resumed again in February...
Next year the Duke was assigned to go to Australia and open its new Parliament with a Speech from the Throne, for him a terrible ordeal. "Well, here goes," York was heard to say to his wife as, gritting his teeth, he arose to speak. "I know you can do it," she replied firmly and Australians were struck by the way in which the Duchess followed every word, nodding and smiling encouragement right through to the Duke's successful close which brought a torrent of cheers...
...Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked was to be delivered next evening at a C. Y. O. convention in Cincinnati. Bishop Sheil was to speak it, but it represented the thoughts of Cardinal Mundelein. His thoughts were of war & peace...
...speak their minds, and comprehend...