Word: verbalizer
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...trend of affairs appears to demand occasional new coinage to facilitate coherent verbal exchange of ideas...
...share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that it is a saga of a rollicking Trinidad wench...
...which they held, so that no cheating could go on during the armistice. On the top of the hill, between a row of Japanese soldiers on one side and Russians on the other, the commanders met and argued from noon to 6:15 p. m. The officers reached a verbal agreement but signed no map at this parley, and the troops on each side moved back 90 yards, leaving the top of Changkufeng Hill again completely vacant...
Recent expropriations have forced Secretary of State Cordell Hull to face the question of whether the U. S. could continue to spare the rod without spoiling the neighbor. He decided on a verbal spanking, denied that it must be forcible...
About the quality of the work on hand, Chicagoans were of two minds. One mind belonged to the Chicago Daily Tribune's conservative critic, Eleanor Jewett, who reported somewhat tartly that it was "practically a complete triumph for the modernists" and "filled with bad painting." "Modernism" being a verbal shinny-can long since whanged out of all shape or precision, art-lovers went to see for themselves. Most of them concluded that the Institute's 17th, representing many of the top-flight artists of 14 nations, was indeed contemporary but well up to its lively standard...