Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About Prohibition, Governor Ritchie was not nearly so outspoken as Senator Reed. The Ritchie point is states' rights; the Reed, political rancor. Yet it was after the Ritchie speech that Toastmaster Davis saw fit to depart from routine to "restore harmony." The U. S. people, said he, were divided in three classes, not two, on Prohibition?the third being "those who believe the present law is the best way to deal with this great governmental experiment, at present...
...During Senator Smoot's speech, a young man in the gallery became hysterical and screamed: "Stop this cold-blooded murder!" He was hustled out, sent to a hospital for observation...
...other hand, one feels that it is a little bit hard on a lecturer if all his little mannerisms, whether of speech or gesture, are to constitute an indictment against him, as one critic suggests. Even the B.B.C. announcers, who must of course be the most perfect speakers, have their little manenrisms...
Deposited appropriately by a battleship on Cuban soil while Marines were planning a new bombing attack on Niearaguan villages. President Coolidge eloquently clouded the issue in the speech of optimistic generalities in which he assured a doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful...
...sponsor ... it might do harm to our youth.'' Detroit women characterized the criticism of Miss Royden as "absurd," but in Philadelphia, after reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge in expressions of fluffy indignation. On the day after her arrival, Agnes Maude Royden gave a lecture at a Manhattan branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Said Preacher Royden, referring to the distinction between the moral codes for male and female: "We shall see worse things before...