Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic Rene Rennes, is "working on some very large paintings . . . and it must be said that the spirit of these works constitutes a new phase in the history of Picasso. Ever since the disgust and indignation expressed in Guernica, his canvases have been more or less in the same idiom-the expression of murder and barbarism, [but] at Antibes Picasso has closed the infernal cycle of Guernica. Luminous Mediterranean skies replace the black sun of Spain at war. Centaurs play pipes and an inspired woman, a sort of Goddess of Joy, dances in the company of little goats. . . . The message...
...Ensign David Flohr of Banana River, Fla., passed along a current idiom. In a letter to LIFE, praising a picture of Rita Hayworth in a sheer nightgown, he cried: "She's really Mello-Rooney, Viddle...
Into the stony idiom of the brain...
...gentlemen, you have often aroused my admiration for your frequently delightful choice of words, as well as for your apt new use of many an old one. I bow humbly to your practiced use of almost an industrial idiom, but, never did I expect you to jump the track when confronted with a commuter electric line like the C.A. & E. I'll bet your description popped circuit breakers all the way from the front platforms of the shiny new C.A. & E. cars clear back to the power house. . . . Don't you agree "chuffed" just...
...realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...