Word: cliche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train service came to be taken for granted, railroad advertising concerned itself largely with the tourist trade. Pictures of Nature's grandeur, of Yellowstone geysers, California trout fishermen, New Mexico Indians, Florida bathing girls, New England sailboats, loomed large in railroad copy. "Vacationland" became a copywriter's cliché. There were exceptions in the form of notable institutional campaigns. Lackawanna invented "Phoebe Snow," the girl who traveled "The Road of Anthracite" without getting dirty. Pennsylvania Railroad told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings...
Loyally therefore, critics suppressed the usual clichés about the backwardness, the stodginess of all Academies. And with considerable justice. To the quick glance of a gallerygoer the walls looked about the same, but Norway-born Artist Lie had done about as much as one person in one season could do to enliven the Academy. Prizewinners, announced fortnight ago (TIME, March 18), were familiar to the public before the show opened. Almost all of them were painted in the modern idiom. Instead of the exhausting acres of mediocrity of previous shows, only 260 oils were on view, and among...
...Author Sidney Perelman, sometime cartoonist, funnyman and scenarist for the Marx Brothers, is famed for his comic writing in which clichés, puns, misunderstandings, paraphrases of oldtime cinema captions, tall talk and dull talk are jumbled together. But All Good Americans, a naturalistic play on hardboiled lovers, is not improved by being peppered with Perelman jokes, new, old, sometimes funny. The lines and action are sophisticated, superficial, curiously unreal...
...such firms as Kuhn, Loeb or Dillon, Reed. Sometimes he did not even trouble to notify his wife until he mailed a check for her share of the profits. When he did, it was always with a formal letter starting "Dear Elizabeth," and filled with the cool, redundant clichés of the market place and signed, "Very truly yours, C. E. Mitchell." And always she acknowledged them with an equally informal letter starting, "Dear Charles" and ending "Very truly yours, Elizabeth R. Mitchell...
...Newton had written many a little piece for church papers but he wished to know the mood of the average non-religious editor. He wrote a dozen samples, sent them around for criticism, told the editors to be "ruthless." Aware that religious writers are often verbose, given to clichéd sectarianism and stale prettiness, most of the editors were pleased to the point of enthusiasm. Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press, "strongly impressed," could find no criticism to make. Editor Bingay predicted that Dr. Newton would gain an even bigger following in his field than Walter Lippmann...