Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a privileged correspondent asked Edward of Wales, last week, whether he would hunt rhinoceroses, H. R. H. launched into chatty discussion of a topic now hotly debated between white huntsmen in Africa...
Moose. The second topic which stirred Swedes, last week, was wild moose. These mighty, antlered game were alarmingly reported to be browsing upon and trampling down thousands of aspen saplings in the province of Smaland. Aspen is a wood much used for making match sticks; and match making is a major industry of Sweden. Therefore the wild moose tales alarmed...
Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee was an early proponent of the concept of a treaty "outlawing war." Having lectured on the topic years before Secretary Kellogg took it up, he recently approved the present draft, saying: "The Multilateral anti-war Treaty, if signed this summer, will have right of way in the Senate next winter. ... I look for no serious fight against its ratification...
Instructor Wilhelm II first lectured for 75 minutes on the topic "Ocean Traffic," then listened to four 30-minute lectures on Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Oriental art, architecture...
...about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption. An editorial writer on the New York Evening World, Claude Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early...