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...sacrifice and thanksgiving to Mars that the person who discovered the mistake was a friend. Imagine the result if an Annapolis man had seen it first. The age-old rivalry between army and navy would have ended then and there with the middles on top, chanting a newly-found epithet, perfectly precise and utterly unanswerable...
...outburst of indignation from Labor's only woman M. P., Ellen Wilkinson. She said that the women of the Labor Party "felt pretty sick when they read nonsense like that talked by Ethel Snowden in America and added that she would like to apply to Mrs. Snowden the epithet "The woman who wants slapping...
...Golden Whales of California and Other Poems. Thereafter, many sport writers adopted Poet Lindsay's picturesque phrase, applying it to football teams of California University as a cognomen thought to be appropriate in view of the prowess of those teams. TIME thanks Subscriber Mott for recalling the official epithet...
...more important is the shake-up of the Conservative Party. Who did it? No doubt the "Shadow Cabinet" of all the talents. The fact remains that they have done for Conservatism what Disraeli did for it in the last century ? they have modernized it; hence the oft-quoted epithet: "The Conservatives of to day would have been the Radicals of yesterday."But in following Disraeli's tactics, they have reaffirmed his principles. The fight which Conservatives and Liberals have won against the Laborites has ended in a victory for the rights of individuals over the rights of the State...
...theatre, was filling the Manhattan engagements of what is declared to be her farewell tour. Outside that other theatre was displayed an advertisement familiar to five continents, simply worded-the most arrogant advertisement in the world. It read in large letters ANNA PAVLOWA; in small ones, as if the epithet was too indisputable to require emphasis, "The Incomparable." Karsavina is the only woman who has ever been capable of challenging the justice of that epithet. How rash was her challenge? A large audience went to see. For them she danced. In chevelure of curled peruke, to a Mozart serenade...