Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to Rilke, Frederic Prokosch relies on nothing but Prokosch. But on close examination, most readers will find Prokosch to be unreliable. An Austrian-American, instructor at Yale, Frederic Prokosch has written two novels (The Asiatics, The Seven Who Fled) which tickled occidental yogi-men. An able verbal fakir, Prokosch, by playing solemn tricks with the sounds of words, makes his poems bloom like a fakir's mango tree...
Frowns, Roars. Wearing his best frown, the French Ambassador, 48 hours later, called upon Son-in-Law and demanded verbal explanations-but only verbal, nothing in writing. Son-in-Law roared right back for 45 minutes, then announced to the world: "The Italian Royal and Imperial Government infinitely regrets this wholly irresponsible and uncontrollable burst of enthusiasm...
...good thing that human feeling should show itself in deeds, and not merely in verbal indignation. The plan for refugee students at Harvard provides a way of action, and it should receive the vigorous support of every member of the Harvard community...
...benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor on the basis of the cocks' breeding or their fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides of the pit, crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks...
...various other verbal flights by Critics Roger Fry, Thomas Craven, et al., Author Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry...