Word: apothegm
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...unerring flair for phrasemaking, backed by diligent research. A self-taught speed reader, he flips through thousands of pages of Government reports and technical journals, then distills his findings into mind-grabbing slogans. One article on meat, for example, was titled "Watch That Hamburger!"; his most effective apothegm during the automobile ruckus, "They Can't Sell Safety," was a telling put-down of Detroit's ad language...
...added up to Dr. Selye's apothegm: "One cannot be cured of stress, but can only learn to enjoy...
...framer of this apothegm is the proprietor of both a good restaurant and an unusual personality. He is the self-styled Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, once a Brooklyn-born orphan boy named Harry Gerguson, who spent half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...
...ordinary doctor can perform in his own office. Dr. Pool blessed Editor Welton's venture. So did the president of the American Medical Association Surgeon Charles Gordon Heyd of Manhattan. And Philadelphia's self-controlled Surgeon William Wayne Babcock, who once awed doctors by violating a surgical apothegm and performing an operation on his wife, contributed the first paper. This was terse, factual advice...
...President quoted four people-all chosen for the conservative sanctity which surrounds their names. To square himself with the ancient virtues, he endorsed Benjamin Franklin's apothegm that "the way to wealth is through work." To justify the "interference of government in business" he quoted Abraham Lincoln and the G. O. P.'s most famed Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To justify the New Deal's constitutionality he quoted "the great Chief Justice White...