Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive voice, his downright bearing, his mastery of histrionic pauses, of scathing comment, were used in miners' meetings to make him undisputed leader...
These men will speak at the afternoon meeting scheduled for 2.15 o'clock in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House. There will be an evening meeting, but the speakers for that meeting have not yet been decided upon...
Secretary John Weber of the New England District of the Communist Party will speak for the Communists at the conference and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and tutor in the Division of Geological Sciences, will conclude with the Socialists' view on the subject of pacifism. Mather, always a loyal Socialist, has been prominent in spreading its gospel and was among those Faculty members who took up the banner for Socialism in recent elections...
...insurance agents, made a radio speech, then got up before 4,000 citizens to talk on her assigned subject of "Teachers and Their Proper Preparation." But she had warned conference sponsors beforehand that she would probably stray off her topic, since she seldom writes speech or notes. "I just speak," said...
...bullfighting, Belmonte made it more dangerous. He worked closer to the bull than his predecessors, and he went to the bull wherever it happened to be (previously certain parts of the arena had been considered impossibly dangerous for the matador). While he fought with what bullfight fans speak of as "emotion," he aroused even more emotion in the gasping spectators. ". . . He avails himself of no advantage in the fight and at the end of it the horns go past him at the same two millimeters distance as at the beginning, for he does not use his legs." In contrast with...