Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average undergraduate has a very real interest in his courses, at least in those he has been allowed to select for himself, and is well read in and opinionated on questions of the moment. He can and does discuss artistic and intellectual matters without being labeled an esthete...
...have troubled to come to meet me." Replied M. de Jouvenel, "As you like, but I have thought it my duty to seek information everywhere, and have sought the advice of Generals Gouraud and Weygand, your predecessors." Barked the ungracious General, "That should be enough!" Later he consented to discuss Syrian affairs in secret with M. de Jouvenel; and held a long conference with Premier Painlevé. To the correspondents he said nothing...
...Abbot Speaks" is an excellent example of the danger of treating inadequately a subject already handled superbly by a great writer. Whatever else it may be, it is not poetry. But to discuss in detail its obvious shortcomings would be unsuitable. One can only regret the momentary lapse in taste that led to its publication. The question of the propriety of its perpetration originally does not concern us; but if it did, most of us can recall worse deeds of our own undergraduate literary days...
...Speaker Nicholas Longworth called on Mr. Coolidge to discuss the President's forthcoming message to Congress. Afterwards the President let it be known that he would soon begin writing his message...
Just as it is a bloomer to talk about the price of sea foods to a man whose wife has died of oyster ptomaine-a faux pas to discuss prohibition in a house recently disgraced by the tippling of its breadwinner-so it is a serious breach of taste to "speak of earthquakes in California. Ever since the geological disaster in San Francisco in 1906, all convulsions of the earth's crust have been referred to euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist...