Word: rhetoricize
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From this time onward the endowment of professorships at Harvard rapidly increased. Nicholas Boylston of Boston, when he died in 1771, bequeathed to the College 1,500 pounds for the foundation of a "Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors...
Washington's Mother. "Few women have ever had such rhetoric of adulation heaped upon them, and Washington is quoted as saying that he owed all he was to his mother. But it is a cruel truth that she was chiefly remarkable as a very human, cantankerous old lady, who...
Judge E. H. Gary: "Every year when my birthday comes round the newspapers speak darkly of a pitcher that has gone too often to the well. Last week I was 80. As usual, I failed to announce my retirement as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S...
"What we gwine to play, Monk?" he said to his brother. The passing of the thing in the glass carriage had left him with a sense of liberty that made him swing his arm and adorn his preliminary question with rhetoric. "Whata we-all gwina play, Monke-ee-Monk-eee...
At the time of his elevation to the chair of Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Professor Copeland had intended to teach English 5, but was prevented from doing so by ill health. During the past year, therefore, Professor R. M. Gay of Simmons College, has conducted the course in...