Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadcasters were instructed to pronounce the word "equerry" with the accent on the second syllable, slurring over the k sound. Reason for this, they discovered, was to avoid embarrassing the King, who has trouble with k, usually says e-wary...
...Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...
...Grant Selfridge, 76-year-old otologist of San Francisco's Southern Pacific Hospital, is affectionately known to his colleagues as "Little God Damn." Reason: every time he meets a stubborn case of deafness he swears like a trooper. But last week spry, beaming Dr. Selfridge spoke words of honey as he told his colleagues of the San Francisco County Medical Society all about a new cure for deafness...
Jews and Alcohol. Among U. S. Jews,, said Boston's famed Dr. Abraham Myerson, alcoholism is practically nonexistent. Reason: social tradition. "[The Jew] had to live by his wits in an environment where he had to maintain the full potency and coherency of his personality. Alcoholism became dangerous to the group and received severe punishment...
...London last winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that...