Word: byword
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest landlords, died six years ago, he left holdings estimated as high as $168 million (e.g., 200,000 acres of farm land; seven residences; Annacis Island near Vancouver; 285 acres of choice London real estate, including the U.S. embassy site on Grosvenor Square). The duke's byword: "The Grosvenors never sell land." In 1921 he had unloaded Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Reynolds' Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse for $774,000 to pay off back taxes. Last week his heirs, faced with some $30 million in death duties (of which more than $21 million has already...
Soldiers on the Hustings. Aware that the phrase "Algerian-type election" has long been a byword for fraud, the Gaullists are making every effort to assure an honest count, have sent hundreds of volunteer election commissioners from France to administer the balloting. For the first time, De Gaulle has allowed Moslems and Frenchmen to vote on a single list, opened the voting to Moslem women...
...inability to face reality. Prudential consideration in the seeking of one's life partner, such as the desirability of similar backgrounds, interests and ideals, seems to these teenagers a mere censorious haggling of killjoy elders and the unromantic benighted drudges of society. The typical teen-ager's byword today is: 'If I love him, that's all that matters...
...Russia's satellites. Prague has more cars on its streets than any other satellite capital. Its shop windows are aglitter with goods, its services and amenities rival a city of the West. Yet it is a grey city, devoid of progress and hope. "Caution" is the national byword...
...Joey (Columbia), a musical that has enjoyed two major runs on Broadway (1940-41, 1952-53), was once modestly characterized by John O'Hara, who wrote the playscript, in a phrase that has become a Broadway byword. Said O'Hara: "It ain't Blossom Time" It sure ain't, but it is a dandy piece of entertainment−the sad, hilarious story of how a kept man lost his meal ticket. It has some of the spunkiest and most graceful music Richard Rogers ever wrote, some wackily witty, leering lyrics ("The way to my heart...