Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to complain that a little less eloquence and a little more preparation of the Government's cases would do the Administration no harm. In defiance of precedent, when the gold cases reached the Supreme Court, Attorney General Cummings and two subordinates presented the Government's oral argument. The only public part played by the Solicitor General was to broadcast by radio news of the Government's "victory...
...reshuffles the cards and, by slipping a Gallic joker into the pack, makes the game come out exactly as she wants it. An implicit criticism of Lawrence's visceral philosophy, Lady Chatterley's Second Husband is no jest but a soberly serious attempt to answer a passionate argument...
...waiters are Freshman, the breakfast hour must end at eight-thirty in order to permit them to attend nine o'clock classes. Doubtless the objection is valid, but it has been used so often that it is becoming a means of preventing further controversy, rather than of a convincing argument. It is difficult to understand why, if there is a large number of Freshman who would use the Union between eighty-thirty and nine, they should not be entitled to as much consideration as upperclassmen. Surely the waitresses could be retained for an additional half hour, at little extra cost...
...affirmative of the argument which finally forced Frederick deW. Bolman, Jr. '35, chairman of the Forum and chairman of the Debating Council, to call a halt to the hostilities, was taken by A. Gilman Sullivan '36, who maintained that abolition of censorship would "assure an avoidance of the decadence of the arts...
...audience was receptive to the new organization and followed up the seven minute speeches by Sullivan and Feibleman with an hour's discussion from the floor. So genuine was the enthusiasm of the audience and so heated was the argument that chairman Bolman had to put a stop to the festivities...