Word: prolixity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when "Bishop" Grace arrived in Harlem to inspect his new property, and presumably to evangelize a rich new territory, Father Divine issued one of his prolix statements to his followers and the world: "It has been said that this place has been purchased by some individual. If it has been purchased, it was according to My Instruction. It was offered to My Followers and they were disinterested in it. They would not, nor did not, even so much as lease the building for a further length of time. . . . We have aplenty, aplenty of buildings. . . . We have accommodation...
...packjammed assembly room Father Divine was preaching, in his prolix, cir cuitous style, on "The Great Enthusiasm...
...this time, the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis of the influence of the frontier in American history has been sufficiently overworked to be regarded as no longer novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what...
...have not asked for this plebiscite for my own sake!" The Leader cried in his final prolix but passionate appeal. "I need no vote of confidence to strengthen or maintain my position. But the German people need a Chancellor who is set before the world as the bearer of their confidence...
...received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When he asked a vote of confidence, more than 200 bored Deputies abstained, only a few Communists...