Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metaphor Mixer...
...they must consider any metaphor-mixer after direct contact for many years with Supervisor James B. McSheehy, quadrennially unsuccessful candidate for mayor...
Both apt and arch is the tank officer's metaphor...
...even the Germans, only other people to celebrate the anniversary of the World War, thought up such a metaphor to describe the conflict. But Marshal Smigly-Rydz made it clear that it was not war, but Polish independence, that made the date memorable, warned against the use of force in Danzig, mentioned the military agreements with Poland's friends, and said peace for Poles could never mean "take" for one nation, and "give" for another. Day after he spoke the Danzig Senate was reported to have accepted the Polish offer to negotiate...
...most educated citizens should think in terms of bonfires; alarming that he should publicly recommend "the language of bonfires" to the American people as a means of communication. His excuse for the adoption of such a "language"-that the German people can understand no other-is a metaphor that exceeds poetic license...