Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some election items: New Hampshire. Miss H. Gwendolyn Jones, wholesome 26-year-old graduate of the State University, tried to become the mayor of Concord and thus first woman mayor in New England on a campaign expenditure of $25, with one 15-minute speech per day. Flood conditions hampered voting. Miss Jones lost to Mayor Fred N. Marden, 2,200 to 4,464. Miss Jones said she would now study law at Yale University...
Strawn pointed out that one section of the article in the typewritten text of his speech which stated, "At their best, lawyers are of just about as much value to society as an army of cross-word puzzle fans; at their all too frequent worst, they are a deadly drug on social progress...
When Senator William E. Borah made his widely quoted speech of last week, declaring that the enforcement of prohibition should be the main issue of the 1928 campaign, he little realized how far-reaching would be some of the effects of his statement. The idea of non-enforcement of the constitution affects different people in different degrees. Some write their congressman, some tell the family what Bernard McFadden said about it this morning, and some are merely reminded to get a new corkscrew next time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women...
...Wells would have changed to a new figure of speech if he had remembered that Shaw at 71 excels in back somersaults from the high springboard. It is to be hoped that the occasion never arrives with Wells in the water and Shaw on the dock: Mr. Wells would doubtless receive a weighted life preserver, while Shaw was using the chest carry to bring Mr. Pavloff ashore...
...Professor Norton stirred men's minds to a new appreciation of beauty, and turned their thoughts into new channels," said Dean Brigs. "His lectures were informal talks in a beautiful form; the speech of a highly cultivated gentleman, with a background of knowledge and appreciation of all that is beautiful in the world...