Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This will the first occasion on which Mencken has spoken since he took his oath not to speak in public. Last night was to have been the first time, but a conference with his publishers detained him. Mr. Hays, speaking for Mr. Mencken, took as his subject "Free Speech in America," and explained the workings of the prejudices which operate to make a farce of the principle of Free Speech in this country...
...Lloyd George was a great War Minister. He was not equally successful as a Peace Minister. I think the House must have some perception even in the speech which he has just delivered of why he failed. . . . He has never been able to conceive of any way of making friends with your enemies except by making enemies of your friends. That, in a sentence, is wherein he and I differ...
...never heard a more self-complacent speech in my life...
Right Honorable Members of the House of Commons listened last week like eager theatregoers to a sharp exchange of statements concerning the international debt situation, which might easily be reproduced as a three-speech playlet...
...Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the "maiden speech" of Grand Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz...