Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old talents opened in Washington, sponsored jointly by WPA and city officials. But a Federal Art Project class in Manhattan stole the children's show of the week with an exhibition of paintings, under each of which WPA Instructor Victor Laredo had stuck the artist's verbal description of his work. Samples: ¶ "Hey, you know who this is? It's my cousin 'Butch' and he looks dopey like this all the time...
...called "Big Three"-Their Excellencies Norman Davis of Washington, Anthony Eden of London and Yvon Delbos of Paris-decided to wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely verbal ostracism with these words: "It is clear that the Japanese concept of the issues and interests involved in the conflict under reference is vitally different from the concept of most other nations in 'he world...
...extreme cruelty; in Bradenton, Fla. Said Mrs. Lippmann's petition: "Lippmann is shrewd and quick in his mental processes, commands a vocabulary practically unlimited, is a facile veteran in the use of invective and development of criticism, a phase of his equipment that he constantly uses in administering verbal punishment on complainant...
...distinguished scientist, Britain's Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium' [accepted name...
When, in Ulysses, James Joyce succeeded in crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes...