Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More policemen than citizens witnessed the Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development" reads your description of President Hoover's visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4. ... A gross exaggeration and untruth and one for which TIME should be ashamed. . . . True the weather was inclement when the President honored Louisville with his visit-so inclement that plans formulated many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which...
...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...
...curtain speech before the performance on the opening night the directress of the production explained that the stilted acting and formal speech throughout would in all probability seem strange and exaggerated, but that in reality it was only very slightly overdone. It may be that she was correct in her statement, but it seemed to us that there was a very noticeable emphasis on the sweeping gestures which was being put on for effect almost entirely. The effect was produced and had a very happy result as far as this reviewer was concerned at least. It was unquestionably amusing...
...first speaker for the Bryce Club, Lane, denied the contentions of Howard in an exceptionally brilliant speech. He analyzed his case very well, and answered all questions readily...
...learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor...