Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Banquet in the Cattete Palace (Brazil's White House), "the noble and elevated" friendship of Brazil and the U. S. was Mr. Hoover's theme. It was the last speech of his tour and the longest...
...state banquet that evening, President Irigoyen, whose public silences have really been even more impressive than Calvin Coolidge's, surprised everyone by standing up and making a speech. Mr. Hoover had prepared a speech and given it to Ambassador Fletcher to read for him. When President Irigoyen sat down, President-Elect Hoover returned the compliment by recovering his own manuscript and reading it himself. An interpreter was necessary to render from English to Spanish. Mrs. Hoover speaks Spanish with moderate fluency but Mr. Hoover has never progressed beyond the meal-ordering stage...
Cried Labor M.P. George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie, ludicrously enough: "We all know that the Morgan's business seems to be chiefly to finance General Motors." Queried he shrewdly, "Was Grenfell's speech really made in order that General Motors might take a slap at Ford...
...During the week Her Majesty the Queen and Empress Mary unveiled a war memorial, spoke over the radio for the first time in her life. Complete speech: "To the glory of God and in honor of these brave men I unveil this memorial on behalf of .those for whom they died...
Caught in the Fog (talkie) is an uneasy and mildly sarcastic attempt to parody Crook Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only...