Word: verbalizations
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...Scharr Smith, son of Augustus Volkmar Scharr Smith, a Manhattan lawyer who once handled the affairs of Tammany Boss Richard Croker. Four years ago Student Smith entered the University of Colorado at Boulder. For part of his expenses he got loans from Boulder banks on the strength of a verbal agreement, later confirmed in writing, by which he claimed his father had agreed to defray them. Student Smith also helped support himself by waiting on table, tending furnaces. Tall and heavyset, he became captain of the Colorado football team, a popular figure in college social life. But between Lawyer Smith...
President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...long, long while. I want a man." After inquiring into who was responsible for the interview (the accuracy of which Miss Bankhead denied) the Hays organization reprimanded Authoress Hall, Motion Picture Magazine and the Para mount publicity bureau, then considered adding to its celebrated code a regulation against "verbal moral turpitude" on the part of cinema celebrities...
...myth of Capital as the oppressor rests upon a verbal confusion of Capital with capitalists, a factual confusion ot capitalists with managers, and a misconception of the powers and desires of managers. Material capital does, of course, oppress certain forms of labor (or more truly of mental capital) when a new invention replaces their skill by a machine and requires them to fall back on mere unskilled labor as their offering to purchase the world's goods. But in the long run it is a great aid and weapon of labor...
...Abington, Pa., Browder Benningfield charged that Catherine Cairns "had destroyed the peace of the neighborhood ... and that verbal attacks from her had made life miserable for the residents. Her actions made life miserable during the night as well as during the day. for she did not cease even when darkness came." Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk...