Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished delegation of Italic-Americans including General Nobile (designer and pilot of the Norge) waited patiently in Mayor Walker's reception room in the New York City Hall, After half an hour, the Mayor came, delivered a speech, retired pale and limping. The Italians left, perplexed...
...Dzerzhinsky's speech followed hard upon a Soviet decree to the effect that the retail price of all manufactured goods must be reduced 10 per cent. Even at that figure the Russian peasant must pay, according to despatches, slightly less than 15 dollars' worth of grain for an ordinary pair of work shoes...
...good debater, a good lawyer, industrious, the Nebraskan is distinguished mostly for his courage. He has not thought anything worth stooping for. Two years ago he was re-elected despite the fact that he did not leave Washington for his campaign, utter a speech, spend a penny. Homely, "dish-faced" some describe him-he has acquired a prestige which doubtless surprises...
...breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished. ... It is a serious question in the minds of thoughtful men. . . ." And so it went, speech after speech-Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker Foundation of Boston, urging mental health measures-until the legislative assembly of 800 adopted resolutions for the year. Chief of these was an endorsement...
...Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae...