Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland drank. Calvin Coolidge does not. In many another way the two-term Democrat and the two-term Republican differ. Cleveland is the first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
Ogden Livingston Mills, defeated candidate for Governor of New York, and newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, despatched a speech by mail...
...more than the men, hoped that the new Hungarian Parliament would take up at last the question of who shall sit upon the Throne of Hungary, now held by the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Brusque, sailor-like, Admiral Horthy opened Parliament last week with a short speech, crisp, noncommittal...
...deserved diplomas. Irate, one C. L. Simpson, citizen, wrote to a local newspaper that for at least twelve years Principal Cully (21% years at his post) had "handed" each Glenville graduating class, instead of a bouquet a "generous dose of satirical scoring." Citizen Simpson suggested a new type of speech for Mr. Cully: "People, I am incompetent...
...Manhattan, Professor-Critic Brander Matthews of Columbia University, aged 75, for 25 years an apostle of correct speech, was stricken dumb by thrombosis (bloodclot) on his brain...