Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since both men are solid, rational Teutons, there ensued argument and negotiation which continued for one hour, two, three, three and a half. Herr Langkopf, without ever removing his finger from the detonator of his bomb, stated passionately a case which was soon to rouse the sympathy of almost the entire German press...
...alternative presented by Il Duce is, of course, to replace the "intriguers" and "demagogues" by his own "disciplined" Fascisti. Once the premise is admitted that the latter are preferable to the former, the rest of the argument follows as a logical matter of course...
...entire argument reduces itself to the question of why Mussolini wants this country. Why does he place the power of a modern Roman Empire variety before the ideals of a League of Nations." It seems plain that he laughs at the League because he feels secure of the united Italy behind him. If he is dreaming of building up a second Roman Empire, starting with Tyrol, he might well continue with Corsica and Savoy. He justifies his annexations of Tyrol by saying that the Brenner Pass is the natural boundary between Italy and Austria and the logical place to separate...
...enough is as fully entitled to shadow juries as is the U. S. Government. To support this contention, Sinclair's lawyers might even cite certain earlier activities of William J. Burns, when he was Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation under the defamed Daugherty regime. Another argument which, though it failed to impress Justice Siddons, the Sinclair lawyers may try out on the U. S. Supreme Court, is this: that Sinclair hired the Burnses to shadow the jurors to protect the latter from being tampered by Sinclair's "enemies"-i. e. the U. S. Government...
...whose liberalism goes beyond emotionalism and a hunger for headlines needs argument to prove the present existence and the future guarantee of free speech on the Wisconsin campus, I am sure of that. And no argument that I have yet seen convinces me that liberalism is inconsistent with at least a minimum sense of propriety...