Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his defeat, José Raul Capablanca wrote an article for the New York Times. In this, with the justified arrogance of a king who spends more thought on the government of 16 statues than any ruler has ever spent upon a million living subjects, Capablanca, using the royal idiom, explained his downfall. Said he: ". . . We are not as strong as we were a few years ago. . . . We are very anxious to try to prove that we are yet capable of at least holding our own against anybody in the world.... As to our adversary, he has evidently played better than...
However loud the popular cry may grow against the difficulty and affection of speaking corectly, however much "Liberty" may protest against the refusal of dictionary makers to substitute the easy idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely crystallized as English must remain the same. The efforts of the language reformers to force doubtful or incorrect expressions into recognized good usage can have but one result--to subvert good usage itself...
...known as the last of the 18th Century realists, a composer of severe decorum and sriet technique. His place in musical history by the excellence of his instrumental compositions into which he introduced the freshness and lyric quality of his native Croation folk-tunes. Baydn's natural idiom, for that matter, was a heightened and ennobled folk song. The lecture on the life and personality of the Viennese composer will be given in conjunction with Professor Hill's Musics course...
...Huntington is much like his uncle, Collis P. Huntington-the Huntington who owned most of the Southern Pacific Railroad, of which he was President when he died, and who passed on most of his shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways...
...opportunity for a drawl was looked upon as distinctly provincial. Thanks to the school of which the Messrs. O'Neil and Stallings are the chief exponents, theatrical language has lately come to have more or less close connections with the supposed environment of the speaker, and the British idiom is largely relegated to the use of the British. But the salvation of American drama was not due to efforts on the part of foreigners. Therefore one may be pardoned for publicly sympathizing with the English in their plight and privately snickering at the American rape of the tongue...