Word: verbalizer
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...Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
...talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains and some 20 other leading European intellectuals: ''I can honestly say that not one of them could match Malraux for verbal artistry, for penetrating impromptu analysis of a wide range of subjects, or for knowledge of contemporary events...
...this time small, sharp Norman Davis, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large, went bustling from group to group trying to patch the quarrel between M. Barthou and the British. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary with whom M. Barthou came to verbal blows fortnight ago, had gone back to London, leaving at Geneva Captain Anthony Eden, the Empire's young, adroit conciliator and "Traveling Salesman of Peace...
...uncanny colored sense of rhythm is given full play in producing Moonglow, Dinah, Margie, and Sylvin, the first being especially pleasing. The Five Percolators provide a certain amount of entertainment by their verbal antics and assorted tap dancing...
...stock at propitious moments. . . . Actually they are worth from $25 to $50, but they are sold in terms of old masters-according to scarcity values. "It is talk that keeps Picasso's pictures alive; and when the talk ceases, his art will cease to exist. Its vitality is verbal." Matisse is a "rug maker," a "pattern maker," a painter of "lolling odalisques in diapered interiors." "When we say that his emotion is but another name for bourgeois well-being and that a fraction of it, equally distributed, informs his designs, we have said all that can be said...