Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political conferences, he did not get around to inspecting the post office, but at 5:45 o'clock he attended a 15-minute reception at the Knights of Columbus, at 6 dined with post office employes, at 7:30 paraded by car to the high-school auditorium to speak, at 9:45 was off for Arizona...
...number of politicians who could not be kept out. He did not seriously mind. In Washington he seldom walks into the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, where he lives, without half a dozen men jumping up to wring his hand and say: "Oh, Jim. I want to speak to you a minute about...
...Exactly!" cried M. Barthou, "I should have preferred to speak a little naughtily rather than so clumsily. Hélas! What I am least ready to forgive myself is my clumsiness...
...Armenian Republic which existed for four months in 1920 after the treaty of Sèvres had freed the land from Turkish tyranny. Witnesses testified that the pro-Soviet Archbishop was as good as dead when, on Armenian Day at Chicago's Century of Progress last summer, he refused to speak until an Armenian Republic flag had been removed from the stand. Forty-two witnesses testified for the State, 33 for the defense. Scenes of the murder were re-enacted. A burly assistant district attorney marched in front of the jury box, waving a pencil as if it were a crucifix...
...Clarence here talks of plumbing of the baser sort and discloses an expert knowledge of what Shakespeare called 'Jakes' and of those mundane matters of which those of us with rural upbringing are admittedly hardly qualified to speak...