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SPEAKING POETRY

... sing-song. Let us speak great choruses in unison. Far be it from me to bring back the old class recitation, and I do not think school is the place for choral speaking—but it is a wonderful experience for men and women to speak great poetry, such as ...

Published: Tuesday 23 February 1926
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 224 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CUPID SPEAKING!

... CUPID SPEAKING! The average working-life of a telephone operator is five years, said Mr. W. Pugh, Postmaster-Surveyor of Bristol, at a private view of Beth's new automatic telephone exchange. Practically the whole of the telephone staff leave. to ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1929
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 57 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PLAIN SPEAKING AND

... liked for what you say. Plain speaking. like plain puddings, is something t.-• admire a wry lone way off. Despite ao,ademic verbosity we all like jam on it. You will notice that moat people who pit+ themselves on speaking their mind have no mind that ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1923
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1018 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PLAIN SPEAKING

... PLAIN SPEAKING. Mr. Asquith smote hard WM night. but he was well within the limits of reason and moderation. No responsible public man occupying an! position of political independen.lT could possibly say lees. The events the pest week or two will surely ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1922
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 646 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOBBLY SPEAKING

... WOBBLY SPEAKING. 1)E. JOWETT ON RECENT UTTER, A.NCE4 AT CIFURCII CONGRESS. Preaching at Westminster Chapel yeeterday Dr. Jarrett declared that week of the recent thinking in public afiains had had no background cf luminous principle. Out reasoning had ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1921
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 219 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS

... THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS. The Chairman said it appeared to him to be a business proposition, and as should he discussed on business liner. The road war costing them fI,IM a year, winch was a big sum. The Ministry had allocated so much money as a grant, and ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1928
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPEAK UP!

... SPEAK UP! It is reported that special improvements have been designed in the Law Courts to ease the problem of inaudibility. New sounding - boards over witnessboxes, elaborate lines of overhead wires and the filling up of alcoves and arches are all intended ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1929
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Would Not Speak,

... Would Not Speak, Continuing, witness said Watkins insisted upon going through a field between St. Mary's-lane and church-road. Oldswintord, on the way to her home. They stood by a wall, but he would not speak. 1 tried to ge t him to go home, continued ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1926
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 240 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS

... NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS. Mrs. Annie Eld, 1, East Street, was summonori by her neiggbour, Mrs. Moran, for breaking a window and doing damage to the extent of 3A. I didn't do it, said defendant, when the allegations were road out. Mr. Masser, who represented ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1920
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 353 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PLAIN SPEAKING

... PLAIN SPEAKING. Even as she said the cords, the sciousnees forced itself upon her that they were useless and absurd. She hail only herself to thank for having allowed the inan\to become on familiar terms with bet. She had deliberately stepped down tram ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1925
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPEAKING IN PUBLIC

... SPEAKING IN PUBLIC. Those whe have suffered, as most of us have at one time or another, from public speakers, will welcome the counsel which the Rev. Leyton Richards gave in his Rotary Club address yesterday. It can be summed up in three things—Have something ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1927
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 163 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WARNER SPEAKS

... WARNER SPEAKS. DECLARES THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH PROFESSIONALISM. Speaking at Stratford-cat-Anon, Mr. l'lum Warner haid that one reason we had a &era, •it really fast bowlers at the prreent time wise heeauae county matehee began on 1 May and continued ...

Published: Tuesday 27 March 1923
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 150 | Page: 8 | Tags: none