Word: colloquy
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...This colloquy took place one day last week over a telephone cable connecting blonde, comely Gloria Hollister on the deck of a barge with the sturdy little steel ball that was taking William Beebe and Otis Barton to a greater depth in the sea than man had ever reached before...
...town Gossip goes around hoping to be the first to get the lowdown on the newcomers. The Author reflects on his new status as householder and taxpayer, wistful over old dreams of adventure, contented in his new respectability. He has a colloquy with the postman. Seeing a school of porpoises he recalls the time when as a boy he and a friend thought they had seen a sea serpent. He takes off his neighbors in a spirit of friendly fun. He relishes acquaintance with some of the local characters. There are summer visitors and uncongenial friends of his wife...
...radio colloquy between William Green and Chairman Wagner of the National Labour Board struck out some very astounding things most astounding, perhaps, Senator Wagner's conception of "industrial democracy." That great principle which moulds and directs our political life is now going to be applied to our industry, according to the Senator, and by way of proof he adduces be fact that the Board has supervised twenty elections of labour representatives to collective bargaining conferences. What the weighting of labour and employer will be, Senator Wagner does not say; from the metaphysic of the Washington administration one imagines that...
When a point in John Pierpont Morgan's first day testimony before the Senate subcommittee provoked a long and involved colloquy, Banker Morgan made the deprecating remark: "I'm sorry I started such a hare." The hare of that particular argument was tiny, tame, soon forgotten. But the big, wild hare that was started by Banker Morgan seating his bulky frame in the witness chair, bounded across the front pages of the nation's Press for the rest of the week, leaving a redolent, black trail of streamer headlines...
...Colloquy of the Ancients," Professor Porter. Fogg Museum, Small Lecture Room...