Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure of getting Kansas City clearly. At his home was another receiving set. He had worked all over the world at a man's work; given orders, reasoned objectively, sought no praise. Yet there he sat, listening for his friend, John McNab of Palo Alto, to make a speech about him; then for thunderous cheers, roll-calls of delegates, a flattering result...
Rome. Observers marvelled, and wondered what Candidate Smith and his managers would think, when James John Walker, New York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were...
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan applauded Mayor Walker's speech and said: "If what you said tonight could only reach the ears, the hearts and the souls of the citizens of New York and also of our great country they would be made to realize that the United States has no better friend than the Holy Mother Church...
...fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht, causes her fiance to appear in his true colors and marries her with affectionate alacrity in the last...
...Arctic circle. But he was alive and insane in the frozen wilderness; his plane had been forced down and his mechanic had committed suicide after three years of hardships. Twelve more years passed; Captain Ramper's hair grew long, covered his body; he lost the power of articulate speech. Then some fishermen discovered him. They thought that he was a strange breed of polar ape. He was clapped into a cage, taken back to Germany, sold to a dime museum. A Professor Barbazin suspects that there is a human spark beneath the coat of fur, so he buys Captain...