Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...himself & friends ridiculed and make an off-the-record speech, President Hoover attended the Gridiron Club dinner...
Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections in Nicaragua. The fellow we had in there nobody liked, 'but he was a useful fellow- to us ... so we declared the opposition candidates bandits. Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand...
...best humor President Hoover watched the ridicule pile mountain high. Then he made a speech which, by custom, was not reported. Other speakers: New York's Mayor James John Walker, Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette...
...greater part of this narrative of an unadventurous but representative life is given in Grandma Brown's own words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the flavor of her personality; her aspirations, her achievements, even her limitations; her innocent vanities; her lovable animosities; her patient endeavors...