Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
Under Art in your issues of May 20 and May 27 you have printed nudes by Kroll and Titian respectively. Do you remember when you were a lad in your teens, perhaps attending preparatory or high school? Do you recall the almost unanimous and inevitable verbal and mental reaction on boys by the exhibition of female nudity in such pictures? To 99 boys out of 100 it is not art, but sex. Art is newsworthy and TIME-worthy; sex is not. For the sake of thousands of high school boys who read TIME why not select pictures for your...
Before the turn of the century college debating was an activity followed with interest by the student body. The tricks and traps of the logicians were as keenly appreciated as the generalship of an astute quarterback. Sanders Theatre and Symphony Hall were the scenes of the verbal battles. Interest thereafter declined steadily and the turnouts for debates in the middle twenties--even today--taxed the heart of the most courageous orator. Realizing the problem the officers of the Council and the director inaugurated an ambitious program of radio debates. The first long distance broadcast was in 1928 with Oxford. Since...
...verbal rambles Sir John said Hitler told him at Berlin that Germany would join a pact of mutual non-aggression but not a pact pledging mutual assistance against an aggressor such as the proposed Eastern Locarno (TIME, Feb. 18). At this the Latins cut in last week with questions. How did Hitler feel, they asked, about a pact in which Germany would join other States in pledging non-aggression only, while the other States further pledged mutual aid to resist aggression...
...French Chamber Finance Committee last week Premier Flandin fought a sharp verbal duel with the No.1 French devaluationist, M. Paul Reynaud, who crowed: "I point to devaluation of the belga as evidence of the soundness of my position. It indicates that the gold bloc countries cannot go on indefinitely handicapping themselves in trade. This morning in Paris I can buy for 92 francs Belgian goods that cost 120 francs before the belga was devalued...