Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McReynolds' photographic act was the liveliest of all because he was not only seen but heard. At such dinners he usually makes an extemporaneous speech, and so he did last week. The Justice gave a general discourse on good citizenship and the problems of government. In the course of it he referred to the fact that some attorneys complain, when they lose a case, that the Court has been unfair. Said he while an Associated Press Phi Delta Theta took notes...
...morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...extremely valuable for a man to hear his own voice," Professor Packard said. "If a man hears his voice as others hear it, perhaps he'll take some concern about his speech." Professor Packard said that over the six year period, over 2500 records will have been made of students' voices...
...children to fare for themselves or go to the governmentally sponsored "farm", where, it is universally agreed, nothing obtains but the basest of slavery. So the youths rise in arms. Their actions are not youthful or particularly appropriate to any stage of human life for that matter, and their speech, nothing if not funny, is not even that save in two or three eminent instances. But the exuberance is there in full measure; it and several lilting tunes save the show from the doldrums, and make it more than passably pleasant...
...above is from "Murder in the Cathedral", the speech of the Third Knight. Just try changing some of the names...