Word: colloquy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0. "Guilty." Colloquy between the reporter and the juror...
Walter Jodok Kohler, the G. O. P.'s gubernatorial nominee in Wisconsin, sped to Washington to see Nominee Hoover. What he said about Mrs. Willebrandt was not revealed. Newsgatherers plagued Dr. Hubert Work, the G. 0. P.'s chief spokesman. This colloquy ensued...
Carl E. Lesher, militant vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., took the stand to answer questions fired by a mine union attorney. This colloquy dwelt chiefly on strikebreaking conditions at the mines, lurid with references to Pinkerton detectives, lewd Negroes' criminal assaults on mine women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that...
...across the hall overslept that Joe Forecast was again to contribute weekly wisps of wisdom to its readers. Knowing there was only one Joe, unless you count Joe, Jr.--but that is another story--I went post haste to the imposing edifice on Plympton Street to investigate. A heated colloquy with the genial President followed. I finally agreed not to disappoint my public, in return for which the CRIMSON gave me a subscription at the special rate of five dollars, a press ticket to the University Theatre, and a promise to inform its readers each week whether...
...Percipiendo; On the Distinct Province of Poetry and Eloquence; On Sensibility to Public Opinion; The Pleasures and Effects of Early Friendship; On the Maxim that Virtue Is Essential to the Character of an Orator; a "dispute" On the Comparative Pleasure Derived from the Works of Art and Nature; a "colloquy" On Alison's Theory of Taste...