Word: byword
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second-floor governor"-is a political byword in the state. Chunky, fast-moving Will Harrison does his own legwork...
...taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second-floor governor"-is a political byword in the state. Chunky, fast-moving Will Harrison does his own legwork...
...also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes and fugues-two in each of the 24 keys-that constitute the musician's bible and byword: Bach's great Wohltemperirtes Clavier (Well-Tempered Clavier...
...Hamilton, whose works (under a score of bylines) are discussed today with an "affection verging on reverence." In 30 years Hamilton turned out a total of 45 million words of popular school stories, and made the name of his most famous character, Billy Bunter, the fat schoolboy, an Empire byword. Today, far into his 70s, Hamilton is still going strong, and his schoolboy stories are even read in Braille...
...seems to like him except the voters," was a political byword in Los Angeles. Mayor Bowron, a slow and cautious man, had guided-but seldom led-his city through its most phenomenal decade of growth and development...