Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...State indeed upholds their freedom of speech and their selections for discussion, but do the laws of politeness sustain them also...
...professioner attended by a black slave objected to this most decidedly, intimating that in his last speech he had taken the same ground...
...speech of the youth scare the deep-bosomed, well-girt-up maidens...
...took our places. I began conversation, and soon found that I had it painfully my own way. I consoled myself, however, with the thought that, by such uninterrupted opportunity of speech as I seemed destined to have during the evening, I should soon, by this practice, acquire that refined and intelligent use of the mother-tongue which, according to the most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics...
...Speech, speech!" yells the crowd...