Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plan is as follows: (1) "That the meat, fish and eggs be priced on the menu card; (2) a small book of tickets be issued and charged to each member; (3) the price in tickets of the meat, fish and eggs ordered be given to the waiter with the verbal order. Menu cards would be furnished at breakfast and lunch as well as at diner...
...that the meat, fish, and eggs, be priced on the menu card, (2) that a small book of tickets, (like a mileage book), be issued and charged to each member, and (3) that the price in tickets of the meat ordered shall be given to the waiter with the verbal order. Menu cards would be furnished at breakfast and lunch, as well as at dinner...
...Cambridge, the Water in the Yard, the Freshman and his Cash account, and the more recent material, the Union waiter has for some reason offered--are all treated in the recent issue, and are, well known to every reader. The "By the Way" has a somewhat more elaborate verbal jugglery than usual, but is otherwise quite as unreadable. The drawings in themselves are well executed, and the centre page is a remarkably accurate portrait of an actual event...
...responsible for the letter issued Wednesday wish to say that the two names which were appended thereto, and which have been questioned, were used on the assumption that the general verbal assent of these men, which was given to the candidacy advocated, justified the use of their names in that connection; and that, although assuming thus perfectly sincerely, they acknowledge this to have been unwarranted. It should be added that the candidate advocated was not involved in any way with the above misapprehension. ALFRED E. LUNT. JAMES T. DOYLE. WESTON B. FLINT. DUDLEY L. LOOMIS. MERTON E. GRUSH. EDMUND...
...poetry represents that transitionary stage between articulate ideas and music; where the mere sound of the words carries more weight than their definite meaning. Ibsen's play stands at the other end of the scale, where the subtlety of idea and emotion has passed beyond the range of verbal expression...