Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Does he speak it as I was laboriously taught to pronunciation do, - supposedly the "con-sti-teeoo-tional" only or correct as you would indicate, without the fine shading upon the long...
While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...
Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont of Delaware, last week invalid at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, has had his vocal cords cut out. But he will be able to speak by means of a mechanical larynx...
...enable such voiceless people to speak, Dr. Mackenty, at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Manhattan, early in 1925 displayed a device made for him by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber...
...club are the only survivals of the institutions that reward the winner with really lavish bounty. In the lottery one might win a considerable second prize; in the two survivals there are no second prizes worthy of the name. Miss Kankakee hushes up her shame at being, so to speak, nosed out by Miss Tulsa; similarly the self-respecting author will never vaunt the fact that he has received honorable mention for November. Both are freeze-out games in the fullest sense. Many come and but one is chosen...