Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...
...establish a Fourth International shows how this tendency has manifested itself in Russia. The original Bolsheviks placed the furtherance of the world revolution above all else; this has now been superseded y a realistic foreign policy assiduous in advancing the interests of Russia. While a great deal of verbal balderdash about the international proletariat still goes on, it is soft-pedalled and nationalism is encouraged...
...Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were...
...Editorial Foreword, commencing the magazine, deserves its leading position, As its title, "Gnothi Seauton," would lead one to fear, it has a faint aura of uplift and exhortation clinging to its verbal draperies. But this aura is indeed too faint to bother any but the most far-fetched nuanciren; if one disregard it, the discussion appears as an apt and thoughtful one. It is arranged around two quotations from Emerson: "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and also, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." These...
...blame Curry. When he was Corporation Counsel under Mayor Hylan, O'Brien showed considerable intelligence and ability. Then O'Brien disappeared for ten years in the Surrogate's Court. When, after he was nominated to the Mayoralty, John O'Brien began making the most absurd verbal blunders, putting his foot into his magniloquent mouth every time he opened it, his astonished acquaintances came to the conclusion that he had quietly entered his dotage. They attributed his condition to one of two things: worry over losing his and his wife's fortune (as has many another...