Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long black snout of a locomotive snuffled loudly and puffed rings and flowers of white smoke into a dark blue breezy evening. Bands played and the people of Rapid City cheered, waved, called "Goodby . . . Good-by Grace! . . . Good-by Cal. . . ." President Coolidge stood bowing and gesticulating; he made no speech, for already he had told the assembled population that "the hospitality that has been extended to us has been nothing less than remarkable. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge laughed and waved. Then the locomotive snout sneezed, the wheels began turning and the Coolidges, standing on the back platform...
...know whether he wore a cutaway or riding breeches. ... I only noticed his attraction from the chin up... a man of superior attainments. . . . While we were together there was no minority, only unanimity." ¶After a luncheon given for him by Prince Potenziani, Mayor Walker made a speech which he began with witticism that had served him so well in Venice (see above). His words were: "This is the best punch I've ever drunk." When Prince Potenziani expressed his pleasure at entertaining "the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world, of that fabulous city of incomparable...
...Osawatomie, Kansas, U. S. history has on several occasions been made.- Last week in Osawatomie, U. S. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made a speech on which he informally opened his campaign for the Democratic-Presidential nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come to town for the annual Farmers' Union munched hot dogs or cones and stood on their feet with their hands in their pockets. Their wives, many with yowling babies in arm, soon strolled away from the platform. The voice of Mr. Reed sounded incongruously vehement in the placid, warm afternoon...
...later taken prisoner, tried found guilty, executed, made the subject of a song. In 1859 at Osawatomie, famed Horace Greeley addressed the convention which was beginning to organize the Republican Party in Kansas. In 1910 at Osawatomie, Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting wild animals in Africa, made a speech on "New Nationalism," which loudly thumped the doings of his former proteg; William Howard Taft, and led to the forming in 1912 of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. -One who by officious interference defeats another's plan...
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...