Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gosse was fond of correcting his friends' grammar. Once he remonstrated with George Moore for his use of the phrase "more than you think for." Moore replied: "Shakespeare uses it and my parlormaid uses it, and an idiom which Shakespeare and my parlormaid use is good enough for me. . . . Your own writing, my dear Gosse, would be improved by idiom.'' Says Biographer Charteris: "Gosse . . . was deeply offended, and many explanations were necessary to avert the danger which menaced a friendship of forty years." An admirer of Walt Whitman, Gosse visited the U. S. to lecture, called...
...fires into the air. He postures elegantly, makes desperately winning speeches, executes paltry and artful stratagems, yet remains dull - a character falling halfway between life and fantasy. In spite and perhaps because of the glittering flood of language poured over it, Colonel Satan is too far from the idiom of the modern theatre to be satisfying entertainment...
...author's own experiences, is written with the sure touch of a skillful story-teller who deals with a theme he is fitted to handle with the unmistakable mark of sincerity. Although Mr. Gibbs has been living for some time in America, "Chances" is English to the last idiom of British slang. It belongs in the general category of novels that deal with the reserved, sensitive, pipe-smoking boys who were England's junior officers in France. Those readers who enjoy hearing about the boys "playing cricket" at the front line will be willing to take "Chances" with Mr. Gibbs...
Taking this idiom (comment vous portez-vous?: how do you carry yourself) literally, Papa twinkled, "Well, my children, if it weren't for the rheumatism in my legs I should carry myself very well...
...worked 14 hours a day. Besides his regular course, he took philosophy at Columbia. He also conducted a Bowery Mission, sometimes preaching nine times a Sunday to bums and toughs who needed strong, honest medicine. And he supported himself financially. Result: collapse, melancholia, gloom. It was, in evangelical idiom, the hand of God, for in later years thousands were to be rescued from despair by his sympathy. At least one man he indubitably saved from suicide. Development. Health regained, Harry Fosdick finished his last year at Union while serving as an assistant at Madison Avenue Baptist Church to Pastor George...