Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME described Poet Eberhart's verse, not Poet Eberhart, as "wet behind the ears," imputed to him the natural gifts as well as the verbal excesses of "a genuine ham poet...
...Richard Leche invited Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Managing Editor Walter Harrison of the wealthy Oklahoman & Times to help dedicate the college's $1,200,000 Agricultural Center Coliseum. Last week, these oddly assorted dignitaries succeeded in turning the ceremonies into an interesting verbal fracas...
...since President Roosevelt demanded $800,000,000 above the regular Navy appropriation of $500,000,000, popular forums-from village stores to the U. S. Senate-have resounded with debate. Why does the U. S. need a bigger Navy? What kind of Navy should it be? Last week new verbal ammunition was discharged on the floor of Congress and in the White House...
...most talked-up cinema in many a year, Marco Palo proves the contention popularly attributed to the oft-twisted Goldwyn tongue: that verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back...
...policy will include arrangements for extension and intercollegiate debates, the former being ten intra-Council meets and the latter divided into verbal battles held at Cambridge, away, and on the radio...