Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this way. Spare the ancient art, and the renowned Websters and Burkes the humiliation of having their oratorical science debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there can be no compromise between debating and conference argumentation. A hybrid will but bring discredit to both arts. --Cornell Daily...
Will Rogers in the other movie, "Dr. Bull," fails to convince us that country doctors are any better than they were ten years ago. Dialogue and direction were feeble, and the story was wholly unsuited to Will Rogers' limited talents...
Word of the spectacular Chicago business team of Bertram James Grigsby and William Carl Grunow spread into Wall Street in the late days of the Bull Market. Mr. Grigsby was a precise, poker-faced operating man. Mr. Grunow was an explosive, moon-faced salesman. Together they ran, in a belligerently unorthodox manner, Grigsby-Grunow Co., makers of Majestic radios and electric iceboxes. Unlike most makers of radios and electric refrigerators, they made money hand over fist. In the clear blue firmament of 1929, Grigsby-Grunow stock was a comet...
...banal is that anything labeled inter-house is to be regarded favorably, if merely as a consolation to Mr. Harkness. Next there comes the consideration of the effect on the college. This should be beneficial if the debates do, as their advocates pretend, put the high bat on the bull session and conserve all the forensic skill hitherto wasted on the steps of Sever, in witching hour wrangles over the meaning of life, and to Jack the bartender at the Theatrical. Lastly, it is urged not without sound reason, many an unsuspected leader of men will first find winged words...
...wisely, they will not choose exotic and ephemeral topics for their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate, or the advisability of placing drinking fountains in Mallinckrodt, or the necessity of forcing conformity on the faces of Memorial Hall clock. They will go to the present bull session, and there find subjects suited to the intelligence and grasp of the college student, and lurid enough to hold his wandering inner gaze. If these matters be important and serious, well and good; if not, still well and good, for no one will discern the difference or care...