Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese dead, after two years of undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained...
...into the St. Louis Country Club, but started their own Bridle Spur Hunt Club which developed a swankier waiting list. August's son. August Jr. is vice president of the company but August himself is still the sidewhiskered patriarch of U. S. beer, hurling to the last his verbal thunderbolts at Prohibition. While Missouri had the greatest brewery of the U. S., New York produced more than twice as much beer as any other state. The Hell Gate Brewery of George Ehret was going strong before Busch rose, the greatest brewery in America. Ehret was very scientific. His Franziskaner...
Assuming a slightly choleric tone with a faint but perceptible reddening of the gills, John Bull has bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal Bolshevik-baiting, dwelling fervidly on the wicked OGPU and its modern inquisition tendencies. Threats to cancel lrade and diplomatic relations with Russia are noised about. Meanwhile Russia has announced her intention to go through with the trial...
...President Roosevelt held his first two press conferences. To the first went 120 newshawks who applauded when he announced his system of verbal questions & answers, "off the record" confidences and short-hand record of everything said. To the second conference flocked 60. The President sat through it with his right leg cocked over his left knee and his right trouser leg hiked up almost to his knee. Asked if he enjoyed his first night in the White House, he replied: "Off the record, I haven't got much sleep since I've been here." Associated Pressman Francis Stephenson...
...atmosphere of pleasant informality. They could recall friendly expressions of "cooperation" which opened their dealings with Presidents Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson; but not such cordial warmth as this. Presently they learned of a more important innovation. President Roosevelt intended to answer questions-not only written questions, but impromptu verbal questions popped to his face. He would try it, he said, despite advice by wiseacres that no President since Theodore Roosevelt had been able to keep...