Word: stammerers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his father reigned and his elder brother gaily globetrotted, Bertie conscientiously studied manufacturing processes and workers' hours and wages (he was president of the Industrial Welfare Society). He was called "The Industrial Prince." His still-persistent stammer made public speaking a wearisome chore, yet on one occasion, while rehearsing a speech at Wembley, he endeared himself to a crowd of startled workmen by stammering into a microphone, "This d-d-damn thing won't work," just as it started working. He played a good game of left-handed tennis, shot golf in the 80s, liked to hunt...
Shocked by the accusation, blocked by his stammer from denying it, Billy can only strike at Claggart, with a blow that kills him. At the subsequent court-martial, the Captain is agonized between his duty to "war's child," the Act of Mutiny, and his compassion for what might be his own child. But the tyranny of law, however harsh, he finds less hateful than the tyranny of lawlessness; and he decrees that Billy Budd must hang...
Poor Lamb. A stammer when he spoke Improved his gentle little joke, Which had a point-but one that went Best with an impediment...
...Coca-Cola Export Corp. with the help of only two assistants, a few stenographers, and what amounts to a commuter's ticket on all the world's airlines. Harrold has developed a green kit containing fat instruction books, slide films, records, etc. Even a man with a stammer and an inferiority complex can become a dynamic lecturer. Sample instruction for a salesmen's meeting...