Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of men will be retained tomorrow night for the advance trials, which will be held on April 9. At that time those men who will actually speak in the Triangular debate will be chosen, and the Coolidge Prizes will also be awarded. The Prizes consist of $100 in cash to the best speaker, gold medals to the participants in the Triangular debate, and silver medals to those who are chosen as alternates...
...four Fromms all live at the Hamburg ranch, John, the lone bachelor, quartering himself in the warehouse. U. S.-born of German parentage, the brothers still speak German in the family circle. President Edward makes monthly trips to New York. The walls of his office are covered with family portraits and photostats of certified checks (largest, $1,300,000 from New York Auction Co. in 1929). On the dashboard of his Lincoln is a radio remote-control gadget which opens & closes his garage door and turns the lights in the garage on & off. None of the brothers smoke or drink...
...21st. Up, and comes the news F. Roosevelt the President arrives tomorrow for which I am glad, having not seen him since he was governor of New York. Also I hear this day talk of some unofficial merry-making in his honor: some broadcasting business (that he will speak for the committee I am not sure); some bell playing; even fireworks. But of this I now vow to wash my hands and leave it all to Julian Coolidge's Bellboys and more subtle wits. For well I remember last year how sore at my heart I was to have...
...Cohan's support is pleasing throughout, although perhaps the three leading women enunciate a little too clearly and speak a little too earnestly, in contrast with the star's jolly abandon. But Joseph Leggitt, acted by Charles D. Brown, deserves a palm along with his colleague. Calvin's alter ago in the play, he portrays to perfection all a friend's loyalty, banter, conniving, assistance, and well-intended blunders...
...Modern Times" is of the same jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...