Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrases were most original. To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless." She called sky "an ancient scroll." She knew what was meant when her gypsy crone said: "She will never be lonely while pushing sticks into fire and watching them burn away." One evening she wrote: "The secrets of life that are discovered from age to age are as hard to find as a knife lost in rushes." She sympathized with the American colonists and aroused by George Ill's banishment of traitorous Jack Wilkes...
...slang epithet equivalent to the slang phrase "putting on airs...
...epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. †The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy...
...Speaker: "Such an epithet cannot be allowed in the House of Commons. The Right Honorable gentleman from West Ham must withdraw it or leave the House...
...great railroad men of four decades ago were generally referred to as "Empire Builders," an earth-shouldering epithet originally applied to James J. Hill. Since the death of Mr. Hill, and of less admirable Jay Gould and their stern peers, the epithet had lapsed into disuse, but last week it was revived for a contemporary capitalist, Arthur Curtiss James. It became known that during the last two years Mr. James has accumulated a large stock interest in the Western Pacific Railroad Corp., becoming thereby probably the largest private railroad shareholder in the U. S.- a mighty factor in nearly...