Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World would let no day go by without chucking the Administration under the chin, they turned confidently to the editorial page, ran expectant gaze over a column captioned "Author! Author!" Could it be true? The opening paragraph ran, ". . . Mr. Coolidge really ought to think twice about making such a speech as he made Tuesday evening. Another speech like this one, and first thing Mr. Coolidge knows he may have a suit for plagiarism on his hands, brought by the editors of the Encyclopaedia, Britannica." Democrat readers beamed, folded their papers back gleefully but Republicans were not much alarmed. Had this...
...floors, made them slippery with shining wax, lighted candles. In strutted hundreds of preening women, gorgeously gowned in native plumery. A formal ball was being held in the provincial palace. The guest of honor, Mr. Thompson, strode not without dignity to the centre of the immense ballroom, made a speech in which he urged that the acreage of coconut crops be increased, since coconuts are essential in making oils, soap, cosmetics and substitutes for butter, lard...
Senator Borah, oratorically extraordinary gentleman from Idaho, a fortnight ago tramped southward to Augusta, Georgia, heart of the Southern "Dry" belt; there, naturally, made a speech Volsteadian in tone. He deplored "nullification" of the 18th Amendment, did Mr. Borah. Yet, had it not been for the lazy hot sun, many a disenfranchised Negro might have scented an anomaly, might have pointed out to the Senator that here, indeed, was where pride-wounded "Colonels" first conceived the effective thought of "nullification." Others, not Negroes, have made this fact clear...
...miles before your mother was weaned. Voila-your hand, take it away. . . ." She plunged into the pool. The crowd cheered. Later in the day the women started a distance race. Mme. Desprez won it, swam for more than an hour, showed no sign of fatigue. Asked for a speech, she told the wondering throng that she had been born in 1839, that her father had been a teacher of swimming, that she herself had taught for many years in the Samaritan Baths in Paris...
...Howard F. Barker, author of "American Speech," recently compiled a list of the ten first U. S. families...