Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unimpressed were the President's Civil Service critics with his argument that the fault lay with Congress rather than with the White House, with his implication that he was powerless to get Congress to do his bidding. Wrote Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times...
...Royal Engineers automatically cost her her U. S. citizenship. When she tried to regain it in 1921, after she and her ailing husband had settled in Florida, she found that she would have to be naturalized like any other foreigner. Feminists used her plight as a prime argument in securing passage of the Cable Act of 1922. which provided that a U. S. woman married to a foreigner could retain citizenship unless she lived as long as two years continuously in her husband's country or five years outside the U. S. After her husband's death...
...character who was sincere without being stupid, kind without being weak, and whose insistence on the need for the uninhibited life of the senses was dramatized by the wasted lives of the people around him. In his subsequent satire on scientific progress, Brave New World, Author Huxley buttressed his argument without deepening it when he painted a picture of a world in which man's conquest of nature was complete, in which the evils of contemporary society were absent but with them all poetry, all drama, all joy in life...
...four wealthy New Yorkers got into an argument over which had the finest yacht. Upshot was the first ocean race, across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wight for a pot of $90,000 between Pierre Lorillard's 105-ft. Vesta, James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s 107-ft. Henrietta and the 106-ft. Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing...
TIME has probably started an argument rather than settled one for Reader Eugene H. Purdy [TIME, June 1]. The automobile photographed with Senator Borah in TIME, March 30, is not a 1921 Ford but an Overland manufactured about...