Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sophomore who says he met a Radcliffe girl on the train to Boston and found her trunk so heavy he had to let her carry it will probably be in for the verbal lacing he deserves from members of Harvard's co-educational half when they have their say on tonight's program devoted to Radcliffe...
From at least one business source came evidence that some businessmen are more concerned with the danger of inflation than with any past quarrels with Leon. Editorialized the American Metal Markets: "For the edification of those Congressmen who are enjoying their verbal tilts with Leon Henderson, it might not be amiss to present a picture of the No. 1 defense industry-steel-suffering from lack of raw material because committeemen delay . .. price authority and suitable penalties. . . . It may be that Mr. Henderson is not temperamentally the best man . . . but his honesty, patriotism and ruggedness are beyond question. . . . Price chaos...
Though The Conservative Revolution makes an excellent book title, as a political slogan it leads Author Rauschning into all kinds of verbal quibblings. By it Rauschning means that against the Marxist revolutionary forces which are rending Europe (Naziism, he says, is Marxism rampant no less than Bolshevism), men like himself must fight to the death. But a struggle against revolution cannot be revolution: it is counterrevolution. Counterrevolution is what Rauschning wanted when he joined the Nazis, but they turned out to be part of the revolution. Conservative counterrevolution, preferably nonviolent, is what he still wants. It is bound to prevail...
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee...
Direct hit was the verbal shell that the President aimed at the Axis with the promise of U.S. aid in the Battle of the Atlantic. Doing their best to minimize the effectiveness of the speech, Germany and Italy charged that the U.S. was playing an "imperialistic" game, trying to prolong the war, to drag Latin America into it by the heels. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Nazis said, had answered Roosevelt before he spoke by declaring that U.S. convoys of British ships would...