Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolf A. Joffe, one of the greatest exponents of Bolshevik diplomacy, now Russian Minister to Austria, waxed contemptuous of a reported anti-Bolshevik league in the Balkans, hinted at war. warned against verbal sabre-rattlings: "Naturally, this Balkan shouting about the Bolshevist danger arouses great bitterness among the people of the Soviet Union and enhances the difficulties of reaching an understanding between the Soviet Government and the Balkan States...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...
...make certain such success more than verbal approval is needed. On the one hand, graduates who are conducting businesses in the vicinity can cooperate directly with the bureau; on the other, the University itself can arrange to employ students more generally than in the past in the carrying out of its manifold activities. Once given a fair trial the student employee, even in University positions, will dispel once for all the old bugaboo that he is less efficient that the present professional help...
Dean Leighton will preside at the meeting. After Reverend Potter's speech questions that the audiences care to ask will be answered and discussed by him. These will have to be written out, however, as it was found last year at a similar meeting that verbal questions caused too much excited argument and rebuttal...
...Abbe Van Nuffel; the ordinary was the polyphonic Mass Resurrexti from Max Springer, particularly adapted for stately celebrations." At the public hall, Cardinal Mercier received the first instalment (1,200,000 francs) of a huge purse which is being collected for him. Most of the ambassa'dors paid verbal tribute. France gave him its highest decoration-cordon of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. The Pope sent Apostolic blessing...