Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend to write for the CRIMSON this year. After my unprecedented success--I say this with modesty--last season; I was approached by many syndicates with attractive propositions. And I was surely tempted to dip my pen in an inkpot of gold--to use a rather neat figure of speech--and join the tabloid ranks as an expert writer. But the tabloid writers type with only one finger, while two Forecast digits rattle the keys, yea even three or four in moments of excitement, so I realized I should feel out of place among them...
...said Mr. Brisbane, who is himself an admirer of curt speech, "naturally not, since President Coolidge said all there was to in his extremely well chosen 'I do not choose...
...postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...most part they will work in committees, the functions of which will be purely advisory. A full assembly will meet for the last week in each month in six-hour sessions. Members will have full liberty of expression and freedom of speech, but no subject may be discussed for more than three hours, no speech may be longer than 20 minutes. All press reports of the assembly meetings will be subject to the censorship of Prime's Directorate...
...Bishop of Ripon was not lynched. But upon his sermon fell the press comments that a few had expected for Sir Arthur Keith's speech. Said the New York Times, for example: "The Bishop of Ripon can hardly have been serious." Sir Oliver Lodge said that the good Bishop reminded him of his grandmother, who viewed with alarm railroad trains going 40 m.p.h...