Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notes are in the form of memoranda jotted down during the course of the debate, Borah, in his verbal clash with Butler, convinced his audience that Prohibition was a sound reform in its present form...
...April 6, 1927, the tenth anniversary of U. S. entrance into the World War, there was a verbal furor in U. S. magazines-particularly in the monthly reviews prepared well in advance-on the failure of peace and the possibility of a new super-struggle. Asia, of course, was picked as the seat of the next world broil-with the brooding Balkans as an alternative. The World's Work, for example, devoted nearly its entire April issue to such subjects as: "Fever Spots in the World's Politics," "Where the Next World War will Start," "How We Shall...
...guard in the ranks of English novelists, May Sinclair has never been addicted to what one might term a Victorian style of writing. Her ideals may be faintly romantic, her point of view that of a retiring, gentlewomen, but her prose is terse, keen and precise. This verbal sparsity exhibits itself especially in her latest book "The Allinghams"--a work faultlessly written but unfortunately conceived...
...Caribean, which it is has followed for twenty years past. It is in the process of establishing a mandate over Nicaragua just as England, for instance, put Egypt under the thumb of the Colonial Office (the Times did not express itself just this way). London merely regards the unfortunate verbal gymnastics of the Washington administration necessary to hoodwink a people not educated to imperialism...
...does it show a careful reading of Mr. Lewis' Dunciad Ecclesiastics wherein divers divines do receive a sound verbal lashing as they do well deserve. For one could even cherish a Vagabond after reading of the vices and dirty dealing of the apostolic horde. Also it might be mentioned that a local divine, after reading the first chapter did say, A dull book." He then turned to "Anthony Comstock" and swooned. Perhaps he is the gentle sould whose word is taking the latest output of the Viennese author of "Beatrice" from the shelves of greater and lesser Boston...