Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus by a single coup de politique the Great Power whose name stands axiomatically for a free Parliament and free speech, deprived Egyptians of all parliamentary or democratic expression and gagged them into nonresistance...
...Layne, leaped upon the stage with a cry that the curtain be rung down. He was rewarded by impolite and illbred hoots from the gallery, by blows and shouts from the actors. Even the producer and his lawyers flocked about Captain Layne, threatening lawsuits. They attempted to make speeches but were pulled roughly from the stage. Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later discovered to have taken too much veronal. At last the theatre was darkened, the crowd went home, the policemen made statements and the reporters wrote stories...
...Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After 17 years of hearing the mid-western twang, the drawl of Kentucky and Texas still lingers in his speech...
...more keep out of politics than the Old Soak could pass the swinging door." Elected to Congress at the age of 30, he was immediately conspicuous for his violent eloquence. Six years later (1896) he, a shrewd politician, achieved the Democratic nomination after the famous "Cross-of-Gold" speech in which he canonized free silver...
Bored, he traveled abroad. In England he studied oratory, and municipal ownership. In Russia he communed with Tolstoy, and also lectured the handsome young Tsar on free speech. In Japan he took a bath which fascinated a large audience. In six countries he observed government ownership of railroads-another unpopular cause which he promptly championed upon his return to America...