Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party to the discussion, let it be noted that this troupe is a musical offshoot of the Moscow Art Theatre with which Morris Gest some seasons back showed our confident citizens what time, brains and artistry could do for certain phases of theatrical production. There was only one moot point on the opening night; that was just where the musical feature came in. There were trumpets and a good supply of choral singing, but the play was in no sense an opera, light or otherwise. It is said that subsequent productions will depend more fully on voice and orchestra...
...cannot be used either (a) to bring this country before the bar of the World Court in the settlement of a question that we do not care to submit to it, or (b) to marshal world-wide public opinion against us in case we have refused to submit a moot question to the Court...
...parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have its tongue in its cheek, as Croesus discovered. Indeed, the sincerity of the editor of the jade journal for jaded tastes has long been a moot question. To assume the clear of a Machiavelli in serious, sane, and democratic America is to insure some notoriety. Mr. Meneken often prefer being exactly notorious to being notoriously exact. Perhaps the need of American politics is a manual of malfeasance, of the psychology of political pragmatism, perhaps...
...starts its coming year with the illuminating statement that "through its editorial columns it will seek to interpret or comment upon current news and events of the day as well as upon questions of a more or less academic tenor, holding that mere discussion or view of a moot problem is often of as much value as taking a definitely defined position regarding its consideration or solution...
...during all this period, even when it was the main theme of impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, its constitutionality was never tested in court. It still remains a moot question what the makers of the Constitution wanted done about removals, or granting, as seems to have been the case, that they did not consider the matter, what the Constitution implies about removals...