Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elocution is no longer a major sport in , U. S. schools, but it is still taught and practiced. Teachers still divide up the subject into various branches: viz., recital of poems, original oration, debate, the extemporaneous speech. The latter is always regarded as the most sporting. A boy is handed a slip of paper on which a subject is written such as "Capital Punishment."* For five minutes he is permitted to twitch nervously in his seat while his undernourished brain works feverishly to synthesize all that he has read, been told, suspected about the matter. A bell rings. He marches...
...strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
...Stanford University grounds; and, chiefly, a great redwood tree, solitary, centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will be, if elected, the only U. S. President of German descent in the direct line...
...Speech from the Throne, which is actually neither more nor less than a declaration from the Cabinet, contained one trans-Atlantic allusion: "My Government has been happy to accept the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war proposed to them by the Government of the United States. The proposed treaty has similarly been accepted by my Governments in the Dominions and my Government in India. It is my confident expectation that when completed it will constitute a new and important guarantee of the world's peace...
Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...