Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was touched when one of the pilgrims, Mile. Janusewska, an especially attractive young woman, sank weeping at his feet, overcome at the moment when she was supposed to have made a little speech accompanying the presentation of a handsome gold-handled sabre...
...survive." Governor Bulow felt that if the "discriminatory" tariff were not remedied, the farmer would have to be given assistance in the form of "artificial price-fixing." Even this bow to the McNary-Haugen bill prompted no reply from the President who came with the intention of making no speech and left with the knowledge that his intention had been fulfilled. Senator Norbecky however, replied briefly to the 'Bulow speech, though with the somewhat equivocal statement that the only thing worse than a Republican tariff was a Democratic tariff. The other South Dakota senator-McMaster-also in the President...
...There are times when it is necessary to speak clearly. Messieurs, the whole fate of French finances rests on your decision." Such was the climax of a great speech in the Chamber of Deputies last week-a speech that came in compact, persuasive phrases from Premier Raymond Poincaré. At 66 and long since a greybeard, he retains in debate the vigor and combative strength of youth. Last week, in his secondary role of Finance Minister, M. Poincaré was defending his latest budget against the tacking on of a ruinously costly amendment to increase the salaries of all civil...
High moments for the Elks were: 1) their decision to convene next year in Miami, Fla.; 2) their election of John Frank Malley, Boston lawyer, as Grand Exalted Ruler; 3) Grand Exalted Ruler Malley's speech of acceptance...
...case. Twelve gentlemen of a jury had found him guilty of having abducted and attacked Madge Oberholtzer, an Indianapolis girl who had committed suicide following her disgrace. It was second degree murder and it brought David Curtis Stephenson a life sentence. Of course, life sentences were largely figures of speech-lifers were usually set free after 20 or 25 years. But even after 20 years he would come out an old man. He would have spent what are generally termed "the best years of a man's life" in the ignominious occupation of making cane chairs in a prison...