... THE SPEAK IVTR. EMILE LITTLER started this ball rolling, and returns to the subject with special reference to the star system. He says: I in entire agreement that Manchester could and should support a first-class Repertory theatre, but I still maintain ...

... They Are Speaking Their FOR the first time in a generation there is . no organised and official Opposition in the House of Commons. Yet despite the forebodings of most good democrats the result is pleasing, rather than otherwise. For the spontaneous and ...

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... NOT SPEAKING Presideir; Carmona of Portugal arranged his annual reception of the Lisbon Diplomatic Corps by receiving the envoys separately so that representatives of the belligerent Powers should not meet each other.—Associated Press. ...

... SPEAK PLAINLY ! Talkers Who Do Not Make Themselves Clear. Is this a mumbling age? A correspondent writing to the Manchester Evening News says: Lancashire is supposed to be famous for its inhabitants' belief in plain speaking. Many Lancashire men do ...

... EATING AND SPEAKING. BECAUSE the Prime Minister's speech at the 8.8. C. dinner last night was delivered too late for adequate comment to be included in the morning papers, the suggestion has been made to-day that when dinners are merely an excuse for ...

... STRAIGHT SPEAKING. The Lord Mayor and the Health ' Ministry. Responding to a toast of the Corporation of Manchester at a luncheon at the Manchester Town Hall, to-day, the Lord Mayor (Councillor W. Cundiff) spoke in straight terms of the Ministry of Health ...

... Right to Speak I think that those nations which sent their sons overseas to fight the war should have a right to participate in the Peace. I take exception to the charge that those who want to recognise these rights are fomenting a third World ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. He a'so requested the party to move an amendment reducing the vote. This proposal, which was something rather defiant about it. came before to-day's party meeting, at which it was evident there was Still acute difference of opinion, despite ...

... Sikes Speaking. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Southend, Thursday. 1 am the man who burgled your hou3e. A man . telephoned to Southend's . Deputy Mayor (Alderman H. A. Dowsett) and said he was the man who, on November 4, burgled his house. The supposed ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING. A little slang does not worry me overmuch, but I do object to the use of foul language. I wish to protest against certain market salesmen, who apparently can curse and swear as much as they wish whilst trying to dispose of their goods ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING. To one man the chance of making a speech affords the opportunity for an enhanced reputation; to another it is nothing but a danger. For the man. who stutters and stammers, and finally sits down after a speech principally consisting of ...