Word: didacticism
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Summing up for the defense, Sir Patrick Hastings stressed that printed apologies had already been made to outraged Broker Blennerhassett. argued that the ad writer had chosen "Blennerhassett" without malice, "simply as a name which suggests a stolid, humorless, didactic person. . . . Moreover in the advertisement the briefcase of the Mr...
Professor Berle is the third member of the Roosevelt campaign "brain trust" to find a berth inside the Administration and like the other two (Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell) he was drafted from Columbia University. Son of a liberal Boston clergyman, Adolf...
Lawrence himself, says friendly Editor Aldous Huxley, cared nothing for even literary immortality. Though he was no journalist, he wrote out of an immediate need for what he felt should be an immediate audience. "It was characteristic of him that he hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written...
A meeting of the Bovril directorate would resemble a meeting of the British Cabinet, were it not for the fact that the Bovril board has the honor of including a member of the royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the...
President Hoover is well known to dislike almost all Frenchmen. He and Premier Laval had high words which they called "free and frank." Smoking U. S. cigarets at the furious rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes...