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...legendary temper, on which he practices great self-control. But self-control in his case is said to be a brief, turkey-red moment between the rush of blood to his face and an outburst that begins (in milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
...verbal bullets that tore the air in the Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson campaign made 1940's pot shots sound like popgun plips...
...producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven...
PHILADELPHIA--President Roosevelt tonight restated his promise to keep America out of foreign wars and charged his Republican opponents with using propaganda technique of the dictators in a verbal blitzkrieg of deliberate mis-statements...
...Roosevelt's first direct campaign attack on his opposition and came, he explained, only because he felt the time has come to "look at the record" of a "blitzkrieg of verbal incendiary bombs" conducted by opponents of his third term...