Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defense Minister Comte Charles M. P. A. de Broqueville was speaking last week in Brussels before the Belgian Chamber. There were those before him who remembered that he spoke, in 1912, as Premier, to much the same effect. He was heeded then, and Belgium embarked (1913) upon a five-year program of armament. But the Germans came within a year...
...ecclesiast spoke. "I hope," he said, "that this girl will grow into womanhood, ripe and rich, to spread her teachings and faith as beautifully as the flower promises...
...burgomaster could not speak at first but when he did, he spoke with a rush. He congratulated Fraulein Drazdorf. He blessed her and it was a great honor and he bowed again and kissed her hand. She was, he told her, the principal heir to a $5,000,000 estate left by her "American uncle," the late Mr. Scheffelbauer of Milwaukee. The burgomaster laid before her cable-despatches impressively authenticated...
...come into a meeting sometimes I feel just like a sponge, dripping with honey and milk. I just give everything I've got. I'm weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...