Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blankets, his tired old face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul...
Fortnight ago, during a radio speech from his room in Louisville's Kentucky Hotel, the Governor consumed more than half the contents of a pitcher of ice water brought him by Waiter Joe Berry. State Finance Director Dan Talbott and a State trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
...what was called the "Australian soil" of the cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux, where 2,500 Australian soldiers lie buried. In dedicating a handsome new Australian Memorial, the King showed himself in better voice than at any time since he took the Throne, the nervous tone of his halting speech having almost vanished, and President Lebrun fervently responded, "It moves me to salute, Your Majesty, your affirmation that 'The friendship of the two nations is the best guarantee of world peace' retains today all its power and force...
...comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences-an agitated, unkempt, timid man with bitter eyes and a large jaw, who twisted his hat nervously. Angelica was so disturbed that after the meeting she spoke to him. He was sick...
...City Hall, a tall young man who looks like Gary Cooper and flies like Lindbergh, fumbled with some sheets of paper, nervous not because he had just circled the world in 3 days, 19 hr. 8 min. 10 sec., but because he had made but one previous speech in his life. "There is one thing about this flight that I would like everyone to know," he blurted at last. "It was in no way a stunt. It was the carrying out of a careful plan, and it functioned because it was carefully planned. We who did it are entitled...