Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bankrupt" Axis nations built their war machines, then points out once again what they proved-that a nation's wealth is not measured by its cash in the bank, but by its labor and production. Thus: "The idea of national bankruptcy in the modern world is a verbal bugaboo. The only way a large nation can go bankrupt today is to run out of men or materials. . . . You can buy your war ... to the limit of the nation's manpower, machine-hours and materials. . . . Except for our fears and financial traditions, the same formula can be followed...
...schools. . . . Some [teachers] have tested out techniques worthy of mention. ... Johnny didn't smell like a rose. Even a bad head cold wouldn't have availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against...
Long, Long Ago contains stories, sketches, anecdotes and an occasional verbal sob. Practically everybody anybody ever heard of is cited, thumbnailed, keelhauled, cuddled, cried over or extolled...
Manhattan's volubly witty Town Crier, the late Alexander Woollcott, had ten light literary fingers in a good many more pies, but what endeared him to his admirers was his habit of pulling out the juiciest borrowed plums in public with a happy little verbal smirk that meant: "What a smart boy am I." Last month he did it again (posthumously) in Long, Long Ago, a very satisfactory second course to his highly comestible While Rome Burns (TIME, March 12, 1934). Most of Wooll-cott's plums are still on the sugary side, but the best ones have...
Lassie's remarkable portrayal of exhaustion, fear, resolution were produced simply by Trainer Weatherwax's verbal commands. Roddy McDowall and Lassie had nothing to do with each other, off the set, until it was time to shoot the home-coming scene. In preparation for that, Lassie spent a week with Roddy at his home, then was taken away and isolated the night before. Since Roddy was the first human being Lassie was allowed to see the next day, the dog was delighted to greet Roddy and the scene was strictly a one-take affair. Some ice cream smeared...