Word: verbalizations
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...keep date appeal on a verbal basis, the two groups were separated by a curtain strung across the studio. Albert Feldman '50, Mark Carroll '50, and Signature's Irene Tinker '49 moderated the action...
Last year, the Holy Cross-Harvard game was notorious for the verbal fire-works through the week between Dick Harlow and Ox DaGrosa. Both ranted and raved about illegal plays that the other used. They eventually swore that the game would be played from concrete to concrete...
Thus it comes about that had the Sox snatched the pennant untimely from Cleveland's grasp, Billy Southworth and his tight-lipped little band of disciples would have taken a week of the most concerted and unjust verbal battering in the history of baseball. His magnificent achievement in bringing a second-division club home first, with room to spare, would have gone by unnoticed amid futile and prejudicial controversy...
Radio dreads the verbal burp; television, the unbuttoned button. Last week, television preserved the decencies just in time by shutting its eyes. True to the old code, it apologized by explaining that it was a cinder, or something...
...tragically thin and banal. Like any other Christian soldiers, they used a great deal of foul language in field and camp, but very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced...