Word: stuttering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...41st birthday this week be not celebrated or observed. He commanded that he shall be crowned May 12, 1937, the day on which the Duke of Windsor was to have been crowned. The 300 Privy Councilors were asked by all their intimates one question: "Does he still stutter?" No Privy Councilor could be found willing to be quoted as saying that His Majesty does not still stutter...
...Archbishop of Canterbury has his way, the stutter will be called a halt. Broadcast he: "When his people listen to the King they will note an occasional momentary hesitation in his speech. ... It need not cause any sort of embarrassment, for it causes none to him who speaks...
...life of a well-to-do Englishman, which included frequent fox-hunts with conservative companions. Behind this façade, Engels supported Marx financially, arranged for the publication of his work, kept an Irish mistress, studied military strategy in preparation for the World Revolution. Reading constantly, Engels learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation...
...defunct Wild West thriller, "G-Men," the terrier-like James Cagney swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...
...inspired by God. Correspondents figure that when explaining his policies he uses the phrase "according to my conscience" at least once every ten minutes. Dollfuss, incidentally, like equally devout President Alcala Zamora of Spain, is one of the few statesmen who never prepare a speech, rarely use notes, never stutter at a loss for words. His speeches, like Calvinist sermons, are "directly inspired...