... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... FIGURES THAT SPEAK. 369 People Whose Total ing ere 4s. An iiluminati the dire straits of some ‘of Manchester's un employed is made by Mr. James Wood, the secre of the Lord Mayor’s Fund, whose office is at 7, So street, Albert Square. Last week food to ...

... Rupert Speaks. IELDING to her instructions, mmy assumed ¢ strained and unnatural posture, and fixed his eyes in a reverent etate upon a crack in the ceiling. The girl inspected him critically, nodded, and fell to work. For some ten minutes there was silence ...

... ADE TO SPEAK. o Pretend to Criminals fe m7 Criminals who by actin; “ dumb,” to escape the penalt of t heir guilt, will have a chance in future. ecording to the March bulletin of the National Anesthesia Research Society, the man who shams dumb can be detected ...

... DIED WHILE SPEAKING. While epeaking at a Salvation Army service at Yarmouth, William O'Callaghan, a warder at Wandsworth Prison, fell down dead. He was visiting Yarmouth as a member of the Wandsworth Corps Silver Band, which was carrying out an engagement ...

... How To Speak Foreign. t FRIEND of mine who lately visited foreign parts complained to me very bitterly on his return about the exasperating ignorance of for ei gners, and mentioned as an example the case a pert and giggling cham ermai Czecho-Slovakia ...

... WHILE PREMIER WAS SPEAKING ! Fifteen Hundred People in the Hotel. MR. MUSHETT, prosecuting on behalf of the police, said : On the evening of Wednesday last .a very large banquet was being held in the Hotel Cecil by the Four Provinces of Ireland Club ...