Capp became a popular public speaker on college campuses, where he reportedly relished hecklers.

" One Cree speaker suggested the original word that became corrupted to Eskimo might indeed have been askamiciw ( which means " he eats it raw "), and the Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw ( which means " eats something raw ").

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

He became a member of the South Carolina House of Commons where he was elected speaker a total of 3 times.

Because Teriipia was a native French speaker, Brando became fluent in the language and gave numerous interviews in French.

In late June 2004, Nauru's former parliament speaker Ludwig Scotty became the country's new president.

After his election to the Académie française in 1925, Valéry became a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring Europe and giving lectures on cultural and social issues as well as assuming a number of official positions eagerly offered to him by an admiring French nation.

In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.

In college, Harding became an accomplished public speaker and graduated in 1882 with a Bachelor of Science degree at the age of 17.

At the convention, Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota, the keynote speaker, announced for Willkie and became his official floor manager.

Accordingly, Bryan became the final speaker on the platform.

At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesota, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager.

However, after witnessing Baltimore's segregated housing and discriminatory real estate practices, he changed his mind and became an enthusiastic speaker on racial issues.

He became interested in audio equipment design and his last project was a unique, one-way speaker using a single driver.

With the election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in both houses of Congress, Pelosi became the first speaker since Tom Foley to hold the office during single-party Democratic leadership in Washington.

The Farmer-Labor Party eventually voted for the Democrats ' candidate for speaker John Nance Garner, who later became Vice-President under Franklin Roosevelt.

Lucien returned to Corsica at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and became an outspoken speaker in the Jacobin Club at Ajaccio, where he renamed himself " Brutus ".

Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.

Pitt led the young " Patriot " Whigs and in 1756 became secretary of state, where he was a pro-freedom speaker in British Colonial government.

Dennis Pennington, who lived near Lanesville, became one of the county's early leading citizens and speaker of the territory's legislature.

He came to Athens as ambassador from Ceos, and became known as a speaker and a teacher.

In 1932, Joyce joined the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) under Sir Oswald Mosley, and swiftly became a leading speaker, praised for his power of oratory.

Mosley's son, Nicholas, stated that: " Unity became a very extrovert member of the party, which was her way [...] She joined my father's party and she used to turn up, she used to go around in a black shirt uniform, and she used to turn up at communist meetings and she used to do the fascist salute and heckle the speaker.

Decades after Pickett's death, his widow Sallie became a well-known writer and speaker on " her Soldier ," eventually leading to the creation of an idealized Pickett who was the perfect Southern gentleman and soldier.

Known for his talent at ad-lib, he became a sought-after speaker for dinners and similar events.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

It seemed to her, as it seemed each night, that the gloom drew itself in and became densest at the table's empty chairs, giving her the frequent illusion that she dined with shadows.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

In any event, the extraordinary result of this injury was that he became `` psychically blind '', while at the same time, apparently, the sense of touch remained essentially intact.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.

And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.

As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.

Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.

Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

But at this the one too-large cat suddenly became two cats, stretching.

But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.

Police said he became ill while parked in front of a barber shop at 229 West Pratt Street.

To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m.p.h..