Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Republican assembly caucus nominated, last evening, Thomas G. Alford for speaker, over George H. Sharpe, the last speaker, by a vote of 26 to 21. The caucus renominated all the officers of the last session...
...breathless interest Nahum Metcalf, the storekeeper, had forgotten his only customer in the interest of the recital, and leaned over the counter as far as his long, thin form would allow; and the customer himself, resting against a barrel, forgot about Indian meal and sugar, and looked at the speaker. Presently, Captain Peregrine ended, and the customer was duly served; and then it was that this same customer, opening the outer door, stumbled over the waiting child...
...dressed in a long ulster, who looked as if he had travelled a good way through the cold, started a little at the last name, and turned observantly to the speaker...
...SPANKED."I was very young then, and everything was green and fresh as it usually is. There was an old lady in the next block who wore slippers with" - At this point the violent sobs of the other exhibitors drowned the voice of the speaker, and I was unable to hear more...
...object shall be to discuss questions in a parliamentary form; to obtain a knowledge of practical legislation; and to have some little experience in committee work. Of quibbling, and disputing on unimportant particulars, nothing is contemplated. The machinery will be as simple as possible; the officers, only two, - speaker and clerk, - and every one will have his own place as member of some committee...