Word: oratorically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon (himself once a barker for a "carnie" wheel) had come to Springfield to compete with the Democrats' star attraction, Adlai Stevenson, on his own home grounds. In a broiling sun, Dick Nixon spoke to 9,000 Illinois Republicans. He proved himself no great orator but a hard-hitting...
He was interrupted almost at once by applause. He was, he cried, "more firmly convinced in the righteousness of the Democratic cause than . . . ever before in my entire life . . ." He was not a candidate. But as he went on, it was impossible not to conclude that he was making a...
Macartney's father, a strict Scots Covenanter minister, taught his children* a firm, old-fashioned set of religious beliefs. Young Clarence learned the fine points of oratory from an equally good source. As a University of Wisconsin undergraduate, he used to go down to the elder Bob La Toilette...
Already beginning to think of the future and their lives ahead of them, '27 stopped a moment to elect the most successful and popular of their number to permanent class posts and Commencement honors. Winners of the December elections were: Leo Francis Daley, First Marshal; Clement D. Coady, Second Marshal...
In a yukked, wandering-collection of jokes and jibes, Ivy Orator John B. Manning smirked his way through 15 minutes of allusions to exams, football weekends, and the faculty that brought occasional giggles from classmates. He described how a history major wrote on his exam that a triple entente was...