Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What prohibition and the tariff are to political circles the study of the classics is to the academic world. In spite of the steady decline in the study of Latin and Greek, the verbal sparring about the special value of the classics both for mental training and for unique cultural contributions has not perceptibly abated. The impatient crusaders for "practical" courses face the less vociferous but equally sincere defenders of Homer and Sappho or Virgil and Horace...
Such occurrences are common. The widows of Foch and Joffre are now inacrid, verbal combat because their husbands belittled each other in their books. Pershing's recent memoirs make out a very good case for General Pershing at the expense of the French and American War Departments. Petain is one of the few who was fair and unbiased as far as can be told...
...years later. In 1929 Life hired him away, to succeed its outgoing Editor Robert Emmet Sherwood. Again?so his story runs?he ran afoul of the sensibilities of advertisers and, exactly one year ago, was dismissed. Now he is suing Life's President Clair Maxwell, alleging violation of a verbal five-year contract...
...Mayor Thompson's campaign lacked its usual street circus. He had wanted to parade a herd of fat swine through the Loop, each one labelled with a job his opponent already held, but his friends dissuaded him from such an exhibition. The Mayor then settled down to verbal abuse of Democrat Cermak. He called him "the biggest crook who ever ran for Mayor." He accused him of being anti-Irish, anti-German, anti-Polish, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic. He appealed for the support of "one hundred percenters" against "foreigners and hyphenaters" and in the next breath promised to "load...
When St. Gandhi entered New Delhi to do verbal battle with Viceroy Baron Irwin (TIME, March 2) at least 80,000 Indians mobbed him with acclaim. Affectionate pressure stove in a window of the Mahatma's automobile, showered his blanket with splintered glass. But last week the skinny little champion managed to leave New Delhi amid a demonstration twice as orderly, half as large. He had only signed a truce...