Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...
...Fritz Bultman, 30, confined himself largely to black, white and grey arrangements of what looked like moldy bones. According to the catalogue foreword, his pictures were not really abstract: "Rather they are religious, or moral, bereft of realistic pictorial detail for the same reason philosophy is shorn of particular verbal description of the life whose meaning it explores...
Although one o'clock permissions have previously been unlimited for the second tremors, since 1942 they have had to request verbal consent from either the house mother or president. The Board decided the automatic granting of requests was unnecessary red tape...
Muntz, who turns crimson every time he hears the word Harvard, has now clamped down on the clamoring students. The Boston bureau has been instructed not to submit to demonstrations at the University without first extracting a verbal guarantee of fair play over the telephone...
Author Fred Rodell is quoted by you as saying "I made some changes [in the article] but I refused to delete any of my criticisms of [Justice Felix] Frankfurter." The fact is, he refused to make any but strictly verbal changes...