Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heads of most potent banks, interested in the current situation of world business and finance. Knowing the routes of commerce is of no less importance to them than is the neighborhood route to the morning's milkman. And the best way to learn, they have wisely decided, is viva voce, by friendly conversations...
...thorax, scorching the sibilants, booming the o's. The company stares at the newcomer. Famous women turn, over ivory shoulders, a glance cool with appraisal; gentlemen in dinner shirts striped with impossible decorations raise their monocles or feel for their small arms while he shambles into the room-"Viva, l'Ambassadeur." He wears an old grey suit. A jazbo necktie adorns, but fails to hide, the golden collar-stud. His shoes, surely, have never been denied by polish. See how he bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit...
...Passed, viva voce, a bill creating the Foreign Trade Service. Its purpose is to unify activities for promotion of trade, and it will be under the Department of Commerce, of which Herbert Hoover is Secretary. In debate, Representative Black of Texas snorted at the salaries of $10,000 and generous perquisites offered to the advance agents of commerce. Representative Rayburn of Texas countered by citing the rice industry of California as one of thousands of examples of the benefits secured by our foreign trade agents. Representative Hoch of Kansas was author of the bill...
...resolution had become a far more dangerous thing to the Republicans than the original resolution to which Senator Smoot had agreed. But the temper of the Senate was apparent from the votes on the King and the Norris amendments, and the Republicans allowed the resolution to be passed viva voce...
...fought to deny personal exemptions to persons with incomes over $20,000, and lost viva voce. He proposed the same thing for persons with incomes over $45,000, and lost...