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Word: backtalked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fascinated with the economic implications of religion. Judged by their pronouncements in print and from the pulpit, a majority of U. S. Protestant pastors broadly believe that a biblical heaven is possible on earth. But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking more angry, obfuscating backtalk, than did ever any argument about Science v. Faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Social Gospel | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Ninety-five years ago there was born to Philadelphia's most prominent dentist, Dr. Stephen Thomas Beale, a son named Joseph Boggs. For blueness of blood the Beales take no backtalk from Biddles or Drexels or Rushes since they were direct descendants of Friend William Penn's Friend Andrew Griscom who reputedly built the first brick house in town. Little Joseph Boggs Beale was also a great-grandnephew of Betsy Ross. Accordingly he was sent to the most reputable school in town, the old Central High School. Almost immediately after graduation he joined the faculty as instructor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Professor | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...often has a British Ambassador had to take such backtalk. Next day the Ovey hat went back on the Ovey head and with knotted brow Sir Esmond, hastily summoned to London, drove to the railway station. Quickly the young men in his Embassy announced that this was not an official recall; unofficially they let it be known that it was unlikely Sir Esmond would return to Moscow. In the smoky station was gathered the entire foreign diplomatic corps (but not Commissar Litvinov or his British wife, Ivy Low) to bid Sir Esmond and his wife Godspeed. As the train pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esmond's Hat | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

What has neverbeen heard before was the "breezy" backtalk which the Mother Country gave her grown-up brood of Dominions last week, as though she were beginning at last to think of herself as only a country too. Back-talker: the Secretary of State for the Dominions, the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas. At an Imperial Conference luncheon he said breezily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Everyman First! | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...ultimate inspiration, the great love of Wagner's life. That the Burrell documents provide a strong case none will deny. Minna was evidently a generous, badly abused soul and Wagner loved her. But Authors Hum and Root have weakened their argument by conducting it in a spirit of backtalk, by forgetting in their vindictiveness, that Tristan and Gotterdammerung will endure long after the names of Minna and Cosima have passed out of human remembrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backtalk to Bayreuth | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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