Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry had he known that the Hearst Sunday Feature Service was broadcasting what purported to be a speech delivered by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha to his "War Council" at Angora. President Kemal Pasha was quoted as saying that he had received assurances from Persia, the Egyptian Nationalists, Syria, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, China and Soviet Russia that those nations are ready to enter "an Oriental League of Nations predominated...
Professor Harry Elmer Barnes of the Historical Sociology department of Smith College will open the meeting at 7.45 o'clock with a speech supporting the affirmative side of the topic. Professor Barnes has written a book on this subject entitled "The Genesis of the World War" in which he attributes the blame for the late European conflict to Russia and France instead of Germany...
...Campaign. "I listened to the keynote speech of Senator Harding. It was long, conventional and dull; but he seemed to be very much pleased with it. ... It [the Republican party] believed 'in American policies at home and abroad.' This was very informing. It might have been interesting if it had . . . expressed belief in Italian policies at home and Japanese policies abroad...
...other, Il Duce sat down at his desk, stared straight before him, his gaze piercing and immovable. . . . When Il Duce's dramatic silence had begun to seem permanent, the President of the Chamber, Signor Casertano, at length plucked up courage to open the session, not with a formal speech but by shouting: "Long live Mussolini today! Long live Mussolini always...
...most commonplace writer. Words must give the thought its visible form. So the man who aspires to write with grace and distinction tries to create an artificial separation. It should last long enough to give him the feeling that he is working in a medium as different from the speech of the man in the street as a dry-point is different from a circus billboard...