Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto Rican Citizenship Bill," came the answer. Thereupon Mr. Morgan continued his speech on the topic of the Nicarauguan Canal...
While frenzied dickering and lobbying proceeded behind the scenes, lurid Independent Bourassa made what was later referred to on the floor of the House as "a delightful speech on everything under...
...great was the excitement on Capitol Hill that but scant attention was paid to the conventionally innocuous "Speech from the Throne" by Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy, with which Parliament was formally opened. All ears strained instead toward the House...
There nevertheless remains the fact that certain fundamentals of public speech can be taught, and the calibre of the average speech is strong evidence of the need for the teaching. With the old methods and the old ideals discredited, there is great necessity, as Mr. Fanning points out, for the evolution of a new method of instruction. The present disappearance of all the traditional courses in public speaking in the University presents the logical occasion for taking this action...
...debate will follow the usual procedure of Intercollegiate debates, with two 12-minute speeches for the first affirmative speaker, and an 18-minute speech by each of the other participants...