Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...About a year ago my little orchestra was playing at a Long Island hotel. To and from the hotel I was wont to stop at a little fruit stand owned by a Greek, who began every sentence with ' Yess.' The jingle of his idiom haunted me and my friend Cohn. Finally I wrote this verse and Cohn fitted it with a tune...
...Idiom Neutral, the most recent attempt at an international tongue (1902), is the simplest language yet devised. It is based on a thoroughly impartial and systematic study of English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin...
...with a wife and a young son. About a year ago my little orchestra was playing at a Long Island hotel. To and from the hotel I was wont to stop at a fruit stand owned by a Greek, who began every sentence with 'Yess.' The jingle of his idiom haunted me and my friend Cohn. Finally I wrote this verse and Gohn fitted it with a tune...
Bacon was described as " an embodied conscience." A classicist, who has made the " the classic idiom " his own, he designs with scrupulous care. The Lincoln Memorial is the culmination...
...Morrison's essay, "The City of Mice", like all of his work that I have seen, is beautifully written. It really succeeds in its intention of exalting the ridiculous to the sublime. The author has breathed new life into the bygone idiom of poetic prose, and made it his own. Something should come of this. Mr. Hathaway, in his "Recollections of Reality", enlisted my sympathies with a corkscrew, and then began to alienate them with trout flies. Personally, I have always shunned as tedious any discussion of the superfluous and objectionable passion for hooking fish. But Mr. Hathaway broke down...