Word: bywords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemed well, but General Pao and men had scarcely left Peking ere they returned, driven back by the advancing army of a third Nationalist commander, famed Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the notorious professed "Christian" whose treachery is a byword, and who has several times made himself master of Peking. Last week he was of course an ally and a very nominal subordinate of the Nationalist Generalissimo...
...Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self-respect of Chicago has tired of being made a byword and laughingstock by its present Mayor. It has told him in effect that it is his own snoot rather than King George's that needs to be kept out of the city. But though notice has been served of dismissal, yet, for some months the world may still hope...
...Pieces of eight" has become a byword in connection with Treasure Island. The coins displayed are dated in the 1690's and are the crude money of which Stevenson wrote. Instead of being minted, the silver coins were cut from the end of rough silver bars, and stamped with a design in the center. The edges remained irregular...
...Travis putting had long been a byword before Mr. Travis won abroad. Then it became an international portent. The British Golf Association passed a rule against centre-shafted clubs like the "Schenectady"* putter Mr. Travis had used with such deadly effect...
...fire and whirlwind, is one that might, almost any day nowadays, provide a sensation for the outspoken U. S. press. Particularly if there were violent or sexual details would the public be served to surfeit, until a very real crisis in one man's life became a vulgar byword, grossly misinterpreted...