Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heretofore, verbal "gentlemen's agreements'' have been customary. Often they have led to law suits such as Manhattan Portrait Painters Gallery, Inc. v. Howard Chandler Christy (TIME...
...problem play, the problem being whether a wife commits a crime when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite of its familiarity, it moves fast enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Bebe Daniels going to work as secretary to the woman who has broken...
...family or friends of Woodrow Wilson had objected to some of the things Mr. Wister quoted Theodore Roosevelt as saying about the War President. But Ray Stannard Baker, Wilson friend and biographer, announced that Mrs. Wilson's policy was "to pay no attention to critical comments or verbal abuse of her husband...
Today, friendly enemies, our verbal tilts have not prevented my becoming one of those to whom he can come, where he will meet neither beatification, canonization nor misunderstanding. Yesterday he came for an ave et vale, and when I solemnly assured him that TIME had him beatified, he registered the correct screen despair. Then he protested wistfully: "Can't they accept me for what I am? Just a man, with these clothes and a few others?" That he will pass palatial, welcoming mansions for an hour with a friend years older than himself in a little redwood cabin near...
...Terminal Cab from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that the Yellow contract with the Furness-Bermuda Line had been merely verbal, chose the epithet "cry babies...