Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper section of South Carolina whom you refer to as being "lowborn upstate farmers and mill hands" are descendants of those great patriots who gathered at Kings Mountain to defeat the British Army. This victory led to Cornwallis' ultimate defeat. South Carolina has had no immigrants to speak of and we can boast that the people of our State are all of pioneer American stock that has made America what...
Very definitely would I like to second Norman VV. Geare's plea for Monday holidays [TIME, June 26]. I will accept Mr. Geare's arguments to the industrialist, for in them I am only secondarily interested. I speak for the average man, many of whom, I know will agree with me when I say that more often than not midweek holidays are a nuisance rather than a help. There is little one can do with one day to get a rest other than to go to bed for the day. With a three-day weekend all sorts...
...Never try to speak his native slang to an American: it changes every six months. "Almost innumerable groups" of Americans "have languages of their...
...favorite student of the revered Dr. Sun, wrote many of the Leader's manifestoes, even took down the famed Will that Dr. Sun Yat-sen delivered on his deathbed. He was a graduate of the Law College at Tokyo. He traveled often in Europe, learned to speak fluent French, several times took diabetes cures in Germany. He was there when the present war started. For more than two years he was China's Premier...
...daily life by adding interest to the common interest of that life, and seeks only to arouse astonishment, awe, and a harmful reverence by means of objects rare, old. costly, and of aristocratic history, it needs only acquire such objects, place them on walls or pose them in cases, speak with seeming authority of Art, Beauty, Esthetics, Styles, Periods, and the like, and rest content...