Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golden lion. Last week he was sent, as usual, to summon the Speaker and the Commons before the Lords. As he approached the Chamber of the Commons, unsmiling attendants closed the door, as usual, in his face. Thus was affirmed the right of Honorable Members to free speech, even at the displeasure of the Sovereign. Three times the Black Rod raised the Black Rod and struck the door of the Commons. "Who is there?" came the traditional question. "Black Rod!" cried Sir William. The door slowly opened. ... Advancing to Speaker the Rt. Hon. John Henry Whitley, the Black Rod cried...
Since this mummery had been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
...King's Speech," actually the ministerial declaration of the Baldwin Cabinet, proved short, vague, dull last week, when read by His Majesty to Parliament. The Cabinet declared through the King-Emperor that: I. The Government remains inflexible in its program of sending troops to China to defend British interests, if and where necessary, but is resolved not to wage war formally with China. II. The Government wishes to renew the Anglo-Chinese treaties "on an equitable basis." III. The Government will introduce during the present Parliamentary session two notable bills: 1) an act to defend British cinema makers against...
...William Rogers says kings have no jesters now, because they don't need them. In his speech at the opening of Parliament, King George said, 'My relations with China are friendly and I have despatched warships there to express my good feelings...
...That sounds like saying, 'My relations with .the rats are friendly, and I have put poison in the kitchen to prove it.'" All this was a very good joke. It meant that 95% of the U. S. citizens who heard about the King's speech at all got a totally false impression-and, perhaps, a good laugh, a titter or a heehaw...