Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting hackneyed remarks in anybody's mouth. Your reviewer is finding fault with sworn testimony from a naval court of inquiry and Congressional committee of investigation. The conversation in Hell on Ice is directly, word for word, out of the record...
First major reaction to this news came from Arthur E. Morgan, vacationing in Clermont, Fla. who next day issued an 8,000-word statement to the press: After recounting his own part in the Berry case and accusing his colleagues of "conspiracy, secretiveness, and bureaucratic manipulation," the TVA Chairman came to his astounding...
...move on foot to make the forbidden word "syphilis" a popular subject for dinner-table conversation probably has its redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, is lifting his baritone voice in song fairly often these days. As critical judgement and undergraduate amazement at his recent performance of an operatic aria, the "Miserere" from a well-known opera, is dying down, word comes that he has turned to more popular musical fare to entertain his classes...
...Germans and Austrians the word Lied means simply song. To the rest of the world it means a particular kind of song, as peculiarly Austro-German as Knackwurst. In Italy, where a beautiful voice is regarded as a princely possession, songs are likely to have melodies constructed to show off beautiful voices. In France, where Art is for epicures, songs are likely to be skillful, titillating and sophisticated. But the Austro-German Lied is a miniature music-drama in which words, melody and accompaniment play equal parts. More important than the contour of its melody is the dramatic mood...