Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then after rehearsing his objectives in Court reform and repeating his argument that a constitutional amendment would be too slow, he demanded a fight to the finish...
...husband and acquire another the same day, but industries seldom undergo such swift vicissitudes. For them the process of losing one meal ticket and acquiring another is generally a matter of years. Not so the U. S. shipping industry. Last week, after only 75 days of argument, it underwent the equivalent of a Reno divorce and remarriage, with a disconcerting reduction of alimony...
What caused most argument during distillation was the choice of one word in the last paragraph: should the publishers express "determination" not to enter into contracts for a Guild shop, or "refusal," or "unwillingness...
Many a fantastic tale was told of the late William J. Fallen, debonair, daring, egotistical criminal defender for many of Manhattan's biggest racketeers two decades ago. None was more fantastic than Fallon's reputed stunt of gulleting a bottle of poison, completing his argument to the jury, sauntering out of the court and then rushing frantically to a private room where waiting doctors cleaned him out with a stomach pump...
...reply to the President of Brazil, thanking him for the decoration of the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, fully earned because nobody knew what James Roosevelt said, not even those who understood Spanish."*Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings was honored "in anticipation of his first argument before a packed Supreme Court...