Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
...Lyles spoke so quietly, so politely, so circumspectly, that none present quite realized what bitter things he was saying until he was nearly done. None thought to take his words down verbatim, yet as he finished they realized that he had pronounced a judgment as scornful as it was scathing upon a white man who is popularly supposed to be loved by Negroes- Author Carl Van Vechten of Nigger Heaven, long a cat-fancier but lately a collector as well of Negro art, a patron of Negro poets, a frequenter of Harlem cabarets and apartments...
...first the French Canadians protested bitterly. Then they took to laughing up their sleeves. When lately an investigating committee reported to the Premier that in some counties 90% of the pupils spoke no English, Ontario finally recalled "Regulation 17." At Toronto. Last week the University of Toronto, province of Ontario, celebrated its centenary. Twenty-seven persons received honorary degrees, among them: Charles Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S.; George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario; Stephen Leacock, economist & humorist; Frederick Paul Keppel, President of the Carnegie Foundation; John Huston Finley, editor of of New York Times; Dr. Livingston Farrand...
Chauve-Souris. A "ver' goot audience" clattered generous hands, to see Nikita Balieff* in town again. Save a goatee in one scene and a dented derby in another he appeared in his usual evening clothes; and chattered between the acts. He spoke variously of Abraham Lincoln, Marie Antoinette, Otto Kahn (in the fifth row) ; his audience, his premiere danseuse, and his face. To all this the witnesses listened rapt; to his show they were only slightly less attentive...
...Glasgow. I was coming to a pharmacy, and the pharmacist said to me: 'Mr. Balieff, I was yesterday at your show, but I cannot understand in what language you spoke, and I think if you could speak English well you would earn very big money...