Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nervous was His Majesty's Government about Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley's mass meeting in Hyde Park last week that it assigned 7,000 London police to chaperone it. When tall, aristocratic Sir Oswald uprose to speak, he was surrounded by five concentric rings...
...speak to tens of thousands, to my certain knowledge, in the United States of America this evening. There never was a time when, in your history, the devil had more nearly his right of way everywhere than he has under the Stars and Stripes today. Your beer parlors?your flood of liquor that is demoralizing your country?are like ours...
Driving to Boston to speak over the radio, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins fretted in a Labor Day traffic jam outside Brunswick, Me. To escape from a tangle with two other cars, her chauffeur swerved into a ditch, lost control, over turned her sedan. Madam Secretary Per kins, badly jolted, canceled her afternoon engagement, delivered her speech that evening...
...Edwin F. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee: the U. S. Checkers championship; at Jamestown, N. Y. The tournament, in which 24 district champions entered, was played in rounds of four games each. Spectators were not permitted to speak. The rattle of notes being passed disturbed Checkerist Hunt. For the playoff, he and Nathaniel Rubin of Los Angeles retired to an upstairs bedroom in the Jamestown Hotel, played a round which lasted three days, contained eleven draws, one victory for Hunt...
...year and a half with the Burushu people in the mountainous north corner of India and round out an exhaustive study of their language, customs, origin. Unruly, boisterous, athletic, the 17,600 Burushu are not much like their lackadaisical neighbors of India's plains and valleys. They speak a queer, syntactically complex language called Burushaski, with no less than four genders. Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer believes himself the only white man with a working knowledge of Burushaski, knows of no other human tongue to which it is related...