Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quadrilateral discussion before a near capacity audience in the Kirkland House Common Room last night, four professors staged a verbal battle over their concepts of the study of history. The meting was sponsored by the Council of History and Literature Concentrators...
...master of the sprightly truculence peculiar to journalistic generals plus a felicity of invective all his own. But Hell-Bent for War is remarkably restrained. It is the first full-length statement of his position by an isolationist who insists he is only a realist, and whose verbal hammer-throwing at the New Deal and those who believe that the U.S. should enter World War II before it is too late, daily delights or exasperates millions of readers of his syndicated column...
...with a sound verbal spanking, Reporter Frazer was booked by British authorities for speedy return on the next eastbound convoy ship...
...open season for cuckoos at the U.T. with Buck Benny rioting again, and this time he doesn't riot alone. Fred Allen, his neolithic nemesis, is present to exchange verbal brickbats with the Winnetka wise guy in one of the best light musicals for many a month. It seems that Mary Martin is Allen's niece, and Beny doesn't know that. She's also the star of Benny's show, and Uncle Allen doesn't know that. In the resultant tempest, Fred keeps losing his temper, Jack loses his shirt, and Mary shows them all up by losing...
...American Association of Lexicographers & Grammarians (if there is such a body) ought to have you birds indicted for counterfeiting of and assault and battery on the English language. There never was and probably never will be such a mass of verbal contortions and hodgepodge within two covers as appear weekly in your dizzy rag. I only read it once in awhile for fun. If I read it completely every week, I'd soon be as dizzy...