Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who not so long ago was Brigadier General Dawes in charge of the A. E. F. Supply Service, had a prepared speech clenched in his fist when he arose to speak. But before unfurling it, he ejaculated at audience and microphone: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the great War President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and of the great Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best...
...ended by asking: "Was Darwin right when he said that man under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place among the anthropoid apes to that which he now occupies ? The answer is Yes! and in returning this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before you the evidence on which our verdict was found, the role of special pleader, being...
...first found something that grated against my sense of propriety. I have noticed it several times since. I refer to your use of the sign "&" in lieu of the word "and." This would be all right if you were referring to the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., but when you speak of "President & Mrs. Coolidge" or "Senator & Mrs. Norbeck," it reminds me of Ring Lardner's pseudo-ignorant style which seems entirely out of place in TIME...
Seeing your letter in TIME, replying to (not answering) that of Kingsley Leeds, about the Boy Scouts, I cannot refrain from saying that if you should happen to meet "little Leeds" as you call him, you would do well to speak to him respectfully. I happen to know "little Leeds" who is quite a youthful Hercules though good tempered. He might spank you and send you home. Truly yours...
...their fate on the stage, where he orders them as he thinks they should be ordered. Staging Everyman before the ancient portals of the Salzburg cathedral, he might be seen posting the saints, instructing the angels, calling up to the high tower whence emanates the voice of Deity, "Speak louder...