Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part of the sacrificial goat. But David escaped from the altar?Joan could not do without him after...
...best paid and most popular short story writers in America, here accepts and adapts expressionistic technique for the purpose of telling a simple and moving story. The result is by far the best work Miss Hurst has done?amazingly clever, astonishingly vivid in spite of occasional verbal extravagances, admirably sincere in intent...
...Billy " Sunday, evangelist: " Attendance at my Niagara Falls revivals was sparse. I gave the officials in charge a 'verbal lambasting.' Then 7,000 crowded the tabernacle...
Broadcasting costs money. There are mechanical expenses to begin with. At first important musicians and verbal entertainers were willing to perform gratis for broadcasting, in consideration of the advertising. But soon, when nearly everybody had sung into the radio, the advertising value diminished. All that the radio companies could get were third-rate performers. They turned on the phonograph for the radio. That made the affair ridiculous. They have not done it so much lately. Protective organizations for musicians demanded pay for radio service. Orchestras still continue to allow the broadcasting of their concerts. At big sporting events spoken reports...
...Lausanne Conference took a temporary lease of life when Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish Delegation, and Eleutherios Venezelos, head of the Greek Delegation, had a verbal tiff. The trouble was over a discussion of a commercial convention. It had been agreed that the convention between Turkey and the Great Powers should last for five years, and only two years for Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Greece. Ismet Pasha suddenly announced that, as Turkey did not do much business with Rumania and Yugoslavia, he would be willing to let the period stand at two years, but in view of the fact...