Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immigration Commissioner at the Port of New York, onetime (1921) Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City. As the Lobby Committee is four-to-one Dry, it inquired into all the Association's doings, until lobbying was almost forgotten. Sarcasm, sneers, low comedy, abusive epithets and verbal horseplay featured the Committee's august deliberations...
...things about gunfire-how the piece is rifled, how the shell is twirled, how its trajectory is increased. Shocked by the elementary nature of their talk and their unconscious assumption that he did not know his military alphabet, General Summerall cut the explanation short, gave the officers a sound verbal spanking, stalked from the field, leaving Lieutenant-Colonel Edward M. Shinkle, commanding officer, and his staff, standing at rigid attention. What, they must have wondered, would be the result of the artillery-men's subtle insubordination? Profound was their chagrin. Would the episode give rise to Army legend? They...
...elected Mr. Hoover they put; a man with a reputation for practical ideals in a position of power. The confidence of the people in Mr. Hoover is a mandate to carry his avowed principles into action. It is time for the United States to make a reality of its verbal gestures towards international peace, or else frankly to admit their emptiness...
Author Elliot Paul is advisory editor of transition and has dedicated his book to Her Upsettledness Gertrude Stein (famed maker of verbal crazy quilts); but he has written it in the good old-fashioned way. A native of Massachusetts, he is the author of a bill against censorship introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Henry Parkman Jr. last December. His other books: Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe, Low Run Tide, Lava Rock...
...necessary for Prexy Lowell to intervene and put the lecture industry of his professors on a standardized, and possibly, and union basis. Some of the professors are using photographs and lantern slides in connection with their lectures, and it is said that they charge no more for their verbal and mechanical output than the standard price for plain talks with no more accompaniment than a table and a pitcher of water...