Word: delphic
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...worn path to his door than that which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Public Works Administrator Ickes, Works Progress Administrator Hopkins, Resettler Tugwell and CCChief Robert Fechner beat to the door of the Executive Office last week. Day after day they went, conferred, departed uttering only Delphic nothings to the Press...
That Coach Bible does no newspaper writing is perhaps as well for all concerned. A sample of his Delphic style is his pronouncement in the Nebraska Alumnus: "In brief, Nebraska stands to win every game on its schedule and on the other hand the Cornhuskers stand to lose each contest...
Wigglesworth K-22--Archibald Cox '34 of Plainfield, New Jersey; University Squash Team, Hasty Pudding Club, Delphic Club...
...Delphic Studios last week, Mary Hoover, the only U. S. muralist ever to graduate from the chorus of Earl Carroll's Vanities, held her first Manhattan show with 28 bright, clear-cut canvases painted during the past two years in the little Balearic island of Ibiza. Her most effective pictures were a portrait of an island bartender, pouring a drink of brandy before a row of gaily labeled bottles; a girl in a striped blouse playing cards; a patient, silver-grey donkey with dejected ears...
...classical sandals, her red hair in two braids, Mrs. Angelo Sikelianos of Greece, who 32 years ago was Eva Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...