Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messers. Hart and Curtiss would do well to retain a lawyer if they intend to spend their days making criminal accusations after carefully misreading the morning paper. Statements of this sort whether verbal or written, do great harm to accused and in their impact bring shame to the University and in their disapproval, ridicule...
...reinstatement as president of Gum, Inc. last July. That month Gum, Inc. made $7,472, after six months' earnings of $49,000 on sales estimated at about $800,000. Bubbleman Bowman's only current worry is a suit by his estranged second wife, Ruth, who claims a verbal agreement to a half-interest in his holdings. Last week, after the first arguments were heard, Philadelphians believed that Bubbleman Bowman was secure...
...body packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
...Sung suddenly caved in, so Kazuki said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...
Significantly the Sung-Kazuki "verbal truce" as it was called, came just as the Nanking censor passed this Associated Press dispatch: "A survey of trustworthy information today indicated that the Chinese Central Government was making no real military dispositions to fight Japan in North China...