Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John J. Pershing, hitherto undistinguished for verbal valor, lunged deftly last week with the rapier of irony...
Magnus Johnson, junior U. S. Senator from Minnesota: "I invaded the Senate press gallery and made a fiery verbal attack on the correspondent of a Minnesota newspaper in whose columns I claimed to have been misrepresented. Despatches reported that I waved my fists about, used 'strong epithets,' caused my voice to resound through the corridors. Fearing we would exchange blows, other correspondents jumped between us. There were cries of 'Throw him out!' (meaning me). The correspondent stuck to his guns. Finally I walked outside with the Superintendent of the press gallery, at his request...
...Magnus Johnson. Although the reports of his milking contests have of late simmered into quietude, the Senator from Minnesota has by no means yet emptied his bag of tricks. The latest is an excursion to the Senate press gallery to challenge a home-state newspaper correspondant to a verbal duel. If all Minnesota citizens are as frank and as earnest as their radical senator, the roof of the Capital Building would probably have received some severe shocks. Fortunately the superintendent persuaded Senator Johnson to come with him for some air before the correspondent had an opportunity to get his Minnesota...
...long verbal dual took place in the Chamber between M. Herriot, Radical Socialist leader, and Premier Poincaré. M. Herriot, after roundly attacking the Premier's Ruhr policy, stated that if the Radicals should be successful in the May elections they would seek an equitable settlement on the reparations problem without resorting to coercion. He also complained of the lack of inter-Allied accord...
...Road Together.* A rather depressing chapter was added last week to the dramatic adventures of Marjorie Rambeau. She was forced to fight her way through the tangling verbal underbrush of a three-act jungle planted by George Middleton and nourished to a state of public display by A. H. Woods...