Word: speeching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Writing of pronunciation, some of us would like to know if "enj'yment" is the preferred pronunciation in New England. President Coolidge's speech was much enjoyed by the enormous crowd present, except for some northern harsh-nesses of his tongue...
...world-speech. George Washington, "best business man of his day," was its occasional theme. Its substantive text was U. S. foreign relations. In them President Coolidge found much satisfaction. President Washington, he imagined, would also have been well pleased. Said President Coolidge...
...Coolidge speech was obviously designed to generate a warm atmosphere of U. S. friendliness throughout the world. Other auxiliary U. S. heating plants were also in full blast abroad?Ambassador Schurman in Berlin, Ambassador Herrick in Paris...
...avoid misquotation, President Coolidge cables his foreign affairs speeches in advance to American embassies, for U. S. diplomats to peruse and distribute to the foreign press. To Paris thus went the Coolidge farewell speech, in which was some careful research on foreign alliances. "He [Washington] warned us to beware of permanent and political alliances," said President Coolidge. "The phrase 'entangling alliances' is not from him but from Jefferson." Taking his cue almost verbatim, Ambassador Herrick said: "Washington did not use the phrase 'entangling alliances' but warned against permanent alliances." This was no mere echo, for Mr. Herrick, in Paris, said...
...Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a printed speech in his hand.* The reading of that speech will be his first official act as 31st President...