Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...
...difficulty seems to center about some hot-air vents. It is natural that such a subject should come up in the course of human events. But its connection, other than the obvious verbal one, with members of the Legislature is obscure...
...reach the region by way of Russia and Siberia. But then he would be obliged to traffic with the Russians, a business which would displease the museum's supporters. So he will remain in Manhattan this winter and spring, writing up his past activities and warding off the verbal assaults of women explorers who, he declared last week, are fitted neither temperamentally nor physically to explore. He would not have more than one woman on any expedition...
...middle of the school year and would in no sense conflict with the June examinations. Like the Scholastic Aptitude Test they would not be based upon the school curriculum, but would measure results or attainment. It is probable that these examinations would consist of three parts, a verbal test, a mathematical test, and a modern language test, each of three hours' duration...
...marriage with a young man who typifies the creative spirit, with a future of his own making before him. Merging as it does into symbolism, the story can hardly be more closely described without making it seem either recondite or sentimental. Just as there is no verbal transcription for a symphony, so there is no literary parallel for this cenematic symphony. The playgoer might single out the banquet scene, where brilliant montage conveys the sense of hollowness and hypocrasy: or he might mention the marvellous hospital sequence, where the activity of the doctors is punctuated by recurring close...