Word: byword
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy new touch: Trohan wrote that the British actually sang a song (to the tune of There'll Always Be An England) which ran: "There'll always be a dollar, as long as we are here." "Charge it to Lend-Lease", wrote Mr. Trohan, "is a byword at British headquarters...
...radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...
Ironically, the blow fell while Export was staging a victory dance on another front. It had invaded Pan Am's semiprivate preserve-Latin America-by buying a phenomenally successful line called TACA (Transposes Aereos Centre Americanos). To the superstitious natives of Central America, TACA is a byword with a touch of magic. Many of them who have never seen an automobile cheerfully clamber into a TACA transport, grin across the aisle at U. S. or English businessmen heading to or from Pan Am's main stem...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, offered concrete demonstration of the continued popularity of Tchaikowski. For two weeks the orchestra featured his music, and for two weeks it played to capacity houses. In the face of evidence like this, one begins to doubt whether the supposed reaction against Tchaikowski, a current byword, has any meaning. If there was a reaction, it probably never did cut very deep, but stayed up in the rarefied atmosphere of the musical literati. Sophisticates talked and theorists argued, and the public went right on listening. Even reducing Tchaikowski's melodic appeal to its lowest common denominator by adding...