Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in 1879 at Werl in Prussia, Franz von Papen became a "career officer'' in the Imperial German Army. He married the niece of a French Marquis from the Sarr Basin (then German, now governed by a League of Nations commission). From his wife the Prussian officer learned to speak almost perfect French. In Washington, where von Papen was German Military Attache when the War opened, both she and he were popular...
...number the brothers. We believe in that blessed hope," the personal, pre-millemal and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the door of big Columbus Memorial Hall, stacks ol pamphlets: "Shall We Longer Tolerate the Teaching of Evolution?" "The Doom of Democracy." On the platform, speak ers and officers, addressing the brothers & sisters eight times a day. "Ours is a labor of love." We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust. . . . The Cleveland Colored Quintet sings "The Monkey's No Relation of Mine : Brother Eldon Farrar blows sweetly on a trombone...
...Just tell them I'm happy, and thank everybody for being so kind," called stal wart Mrs. Gann. "Platform? I haven't a thing to say about the platform. . . . I think the platform is all right. . . . I'm going to speak at Newport...
Thus once again flared up the everlasting issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...
...only person who can speak fluent Kitsai, an American Indian language which anthropologists consider the key to a considerable part of Amerind history. is a woman named Kai Kai who lives near Anadarko, Okla. Kai Kai, 83, pretends that she is dull and sullen. That is to protect her from importunate people. Really she is shrewd, intelligent, full of energy. Last week she knew that Anthropology was making a fuss about her solitary survival, that Dr. Alexander Lesser, financed by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, was transcribing & translating Kitsai history as she had dictated...