Speech CompositionAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1953 - 385 pages |
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Page 23
... hand for ready use , it is not used at all . Yet , if a dictionary is worth buying , it ought to be worth keeping at hand for ready use . Woodrow Wilson , who possessed probably the greatest active vocabulary of all the statesmen of his ...
... hand for ready use , it is not used at all . Yet , if a dictionary is worth buying , it ought to be worth keeping at hand for ready use . Woodrow Wilson , who possessed probably the greatest active vocabulary of all the statesmen of his ...
Page 154
... hand at each repetition of these words in the chorus . Methodists sang one verse , Baptists another , Presbyterians a third , and all others a fourth . All people living in the state raised their hands , then all people living out- side ...
... hand at each repetition of these words in the chorus . Methodists sang one verse , Baptists another , Presbyterians a third , and all others a fourth . All people living in the state raised their hands , then all people living out- side ...
Page 204
... hand than it becomes a torpedo to him , and benumbs all his faculties . " The task of our collegiate Tom Birches is to carry over into their writing that briskness of conversation and to add to it the finish that should come from ...
... hand than it becomes a torpedo to him , and benumbs all his faculties . " The task of our collegiate Tom Birches is to carry over into their writing that briskness of conversation and to add to it the finish that should come from ...
Contents
THE SEVEN Lamps OF SPEECH Development | 3 |
THE SPEAKERS PERSONAL PROBLEMS | 9 |
THE SPEECH PURPOSE | 32 |
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