Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subjects to be offered in the ten week fall term, beginning Monday, October 3, will include amateur photography, creative writing, speech training, elements of music, government and industry, current business problems, psychology, variety crafts, modern books, vocabulary building, and conversational French and German. There will also be a "Little Theatre" group giving plays. Courses meet once a week at 6:15 or 7:30 o'clock...
...Hitler has decided to order his armies to march on Czechosolavakia immediately if there is no prospect of a peaceful solution of the Czech crisis by 2 P.M. today--8 A.M., E.S.T. The report indicated that the Nazi Fuehrer, angered by the tone of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech in London last night, has decided to strike quickly...
...make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game: a row of pupils, each representing a part of speech, stands before a blackboard holding sheets of white paper over their heads. As a sentence is read, each part of speech jumps, like popping corn. A pupil who fails to pop at the right time goes to stand on the sidelines with an eraser on his head...
Leary made speech after speech, calling upon the voters to ignore his name at the polls, he made faces at babies, he even borrowed cigars...
...final desparation Thomas Leary hit upon one final scheme. He attempted to got President F. D. Roosevelt to come to Cambridge and make a speech to purge his opponent; Leary was sure his opponent would walk to victory...