Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago, in the course of his continued-in-our-next speech against Catholics, James Thomas Heflin of Alabama said in the U. S. Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...Presently the Doctor-Admiral arrived, and Senator Jones was removed to the Emergency hospital. His condition was pronounced serious. For several years he has suffered from angina pectoris. An hour previous to his collapse in the barber shop, Senators had noted he looked poorly. He had been making a speech on one of the most complicated matters Senators ever gave ear to-the Alien Property Bill...
...student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing a man can really get his teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking...
When questioned as to whether he would make an extemporaneous speech, he asked for the dictionary. It is rumored, however, that a short dissertion on the prohibition question may be forthcoming. Positive information has not as yet been received but it is expected that the Lampoon board will attend and occupy the stage boxes...
...coated over with reliable gags like a little "inside stuff" on the ways of men of the world. Sometimes the hokum is worked into effective theatricality, when the play "gets across with a bang." Honor Be Damned seemed to "get across" at the first night. Playwright Mack made a speech: "Because I have so many plays running this season, people think I write them over night. Ladies and gentlemen, it takes me a long time to write a play. This one, for instance, was written last year...