Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 15 years have shown a verbal inventiveness that, says Mencken, is "the most riotous seen in the world since the break-up of Latin." Some of the results are rooted in the New Deal and the Depression -e.g., forgotten man, economic royalist, horse-and-buggy days, boondoggling-as are the more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high...
Since her return from an eight-week visit to Europe two months ago, Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce has sent many a verbal slingshot at Communist Russia...
...versions read like real-estate deeds. Smuts tried his hand at casting a preamble on the model of the majestic prose which opens the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The delegates liked the Smuts version. But meanwhile the preamble was being used as a sort of verbal garbage pail by all the drafting committees. Ideas which delegates wanted to introduce in other sections were put aside for inclusion in the preamble...
...week's celebration, many a verbal bouquet was thrown at General Ike. Not the least was the frequent call: "Our next President." But Ike replied: "There's no use denying that I'll fly to the moon because I couldn't if I wanted to. The same goes for politics...
...protected what we needed to protect. Holding the colonies and India will be difficult, but the charter does not make it more difficult. The trusteeships section was a ticklish business, but we got through it with no more than the verbal thrashing the Russians gave...