Word: verbalizer
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Over Hull's Shoulder. The week's diplomatic news made significant footnotes to American White Paper. When Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made a verbal pass at The Netherlands East Indies, it was significant that Cordell Hull gravely, politely, promptly warned Japan against intervention-warned beforehand instead of protesting afterwards, as the U. S. has often done...
Defeated by a bare 1,760 votes in the fall of 1938, the proposed charter provoked a bitter verbal exchange between Cambridge city councilors and James M. Landis, dean of the Law School and head of the Plan E. Committee...
...really frightened, Gottlieb finally persuaded Greene to get a verbal license from Mayor Lyons...
Above this level come serious poems about people and places, in which Auden states his admirations and aversions, hopes and fears. The potpourri is tied together more by constant verbal virtuosity than by any underlying single-mindedness. Auden admires a hand-picked selection of the Great-his criticisms of them are acute, his praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm...
...takes fully five minutes of the first scene to forget the conscious striving for verbal effect and throughout the evening there are constant reminders that this is Hemingway speaking, he of the fresh, young, modern, American prose style. His dialogue is excellent in many sections of the play. But it frequently becomes obtrusive, thereby ending its usefulness and going so far as to detract from the play itself. Here is a case where conscious striving for effect has killed the effect itself...