Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment came in the face of an earlier verbal assurance by Provost Buck that the new Graduate Secretary would not have any denominational connections. In the past the Graduate Secretary, as director of the House, has been non-sectarian...
When a turn-of-the-century caballero inclined toward a passing beauty and murmured a loping compliment like this, the girl could walk away in disdain but could hardly fail to blush with pleasure. Indeed, the word for this kind of verbal pass, piropo, is said to come from the Greek pyropos, meaning burning face. Fashioning the piropo used to be one of the pleasantest professions of Latin America, and nowhere was it practiced more artistically than in Maracaibo, a city rich with oil and romance. A proper piropo, while flowery and fresh, was never offensive...
...Verbal fireworks may be in the offing tonight when controversial novelist Howard Fast clashes with Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Studies, in a debate sponsored by the Liberal Union. The meeting is set to start at 8 p.m., in Emerson...
...Winston Churchill, Molotov was "a man of outstanding ability and coldblooded ruthlessness . . . His cannonball head, black mustache and comprehending eyes, his slab face, his verbal adroitness and imperturbable demeanor were appropriate manifestations of his qualities and skill. He was above all men fitted to be the agent and instrument of . . .an incalculable machine...
...ever heard at one time. A Who's Who of British press and theater had gathered to toast his 50th year in Fleet Street. The Daily Express s Frank Owen, who years ago dubbed Swaffer "the Pope of Fleet Street," recalled the first sentence of Swaffer's verbal autobiography: "I was born in 1879, as was Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Camrose, Lady Astor, Joseph Stalin. What a vintage year!" Replied Hannen Swaffer: "You may wonder why I still persist in going to the office every day. Without that I should...