Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dancers are labeled "signifi-cant." So, last week, delegates and reporters scurried to Syracuse where the Democrats held their nominating convention- and to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan where the Republicans assembled. Both parties had everything well oiled. Somebody opened the session with a prayer, somebody made a keynote speech, somebody produced the platform, somebody read it, almost everybody thought it was fine. On the second day the Standard Bearers were nominated, seconded many times, voted upon mechanically. So were the lesser lights on the tickets. People were happy, long-winded, subject to conventional cheering...
...Mills whom Republicans expect to batter down the "Smiling Al" legend. At the convention Mr. Mills aimed his key-note speech at the extravagance of the Smith regime. Said he: "The Governor is a great politician and, like all artists supreme in their lines, he comes high. I venture to say, in fact, that if he is to preside over our destinies for another two years, the people of this State will come to realize that 'the Sidewalks of New York' is for them the most expensive tune ever written...
...Sunday Speech." If Germany has been wiped clean of War guilt, what states are War guilty? French Nationalists saw in the "bierabend speech" of Herr Stresemann an implied casting of War guilt on France. Moreover Premier Poincare himself has been accused of being the chief author of the World War by revisionist historians. Would he stomach "Gambrinus" Stresemann's indiscretions? When M. Poincare announced that he would make one of his famed "Sunday speeches" at Bar-le-Duc, French Nationalist newsgatherers scurried thither, prepared to hear him tear the compromise of Thoiry to tatters...
...Vienna museum say that it is the most beautiful rug in the world. Assuredly it is the most famous. Its designer, whoever he was, must have dreamed its pattern many times before he dared to record it. Such spraying valleys, such a flight of flowers and beasts, are the speech of a man who loved the world and knew its changing story. Reds ring together like swords clashing in a book; the silver of the hills, mountain greenery, the gold of the sea, blend and flash under the square border where no wind blows, where the genii squat on their...
...safe' and 2) financially capable. ... 1) a Harvard graduate, 2) socially presentable, 3) between 30 and 40 years old. . . . It would be a desideratum of course that he possess an independent competence." Financial capacity was explained: "Not ... a mere knack of handling the funds. ... A well-spoken speech may net only ten, where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above...