Word: idiom
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...speech to Congress (see U.S. AT WAR) gave one measure of his world view. His innate interests and his knowledge were domestic; he did not pretend to know the world as Roosevelt knew it, and the world did not know him. When he spoke informally, in American idiom, the world was likely to misunderstand him. Apprehensive Britons, reading that he felt as if a bull had fallen on him, might mistakenly take him for a Throttlebottom. They would feel better if they knew that he had privately had a lot to do with the Senate resolution on world cooperation last...
...half pints.* Woolton got Britons to tighten their belts and live with the notches permanently drawn in. To the Bill and Lizzie Smiths across the length & breadth of the British Isles the name Woolton stood for honest control without favoritism, or, in his own Lancashire idiom, for "a fair do all round...
...liberated Leyte, where Filipinos have been singing God Bless the Philippines to the tune of Irving Berlin's God Bless America, a soldier troupe performance of Composer Berlin's This Is the Army last week tried out a brand new number in the U.S. idiom: Heaven Watch the Philippines...
They should be revised in modern idiom...
...years ago when ragtime and jazz were born in New Orleans. In those days, Americans--and Europeans--listened to symphony orchestras and military bands, and they danced only to string orchestras. Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning...