Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reopened shows prospered again. Most popular were Little Dog Laughed, at the Palladium; Black Velvet, at the Hippodrome; French for Love, at the Criterion, and a revue at the Gate which features cracks about the U. S. profiteering from the war and the recent "stay-out-of-war" speech of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...having them read to him 20 times, follows them during broadcasts by touch-cues, called "zicks," given by his manager, Stanley North. North puts his right hand on Templeton's left shoulder, squeezes when he is to speak or play, whispers the first few words of each speech. To speed his playing North presses Alec's left shoulder with his forefinger; to slow him down, the forefinger is drawn across his back. After a particularly fine job, North pats Alec's left coat pocket. Thus far, Alec has never missed a cue, has had his pocket patted...
Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech disorders in the U. S., but it does its bit. In its time it has helped some 30,000, has guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened...
Invitations to Earl Browder, U. S. Communist No. 1, to make a speech before Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth undergraduate societies were rescinded by university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...
...front of the neck, at the point where a collar button usually rests. Through this hole larynx-less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They sometimes manage to produce a squeaky whisper, using only their mouths and palates...