Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident that Soviet Russia is unique in the amount of verbal abuse which it will tolerate from a British minister...
Nations have a peculiarly touchy psychology, a disposition to snap at slender affronts to dignity. With truculence, commonly considered a component of prestige, diplomats indulge in politely phrased wars of words. Were it not for the glint of steel in each polished sentence, these verbal disputes would have an element of petulant humor...
...much of the more blatant drama out of government. For the thrills of sovereignty, a cabled connection with dictators or a censored story of revolution must suffice. When ballots replaced bullets in the determination of national policy, the obvious excitement left political life. In its place remain subtleties of verbal by play which not all can applaud...
Malvy Out. Minister of Interior Louis Malvy, whose presence in the Cabinet to conciliate Left Deputies caused a verbal attack upon him by Right Deputies during which he swooned (TIME, March 29), tendered his resignation last week and was replaced by Minister of Agriculture Jean-Alexandre Durand, likewise a member of the loose Herriot coalition of Left parties...
...Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung...