Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Winchell and the late Damon Runyon, Robbins had almost singlehanded created his own "language," and built his audience by teaching it to them (see box). He started with a few scattered scat idioms picked up from jazzmen, rapidly invented new ones on principles of alliteration, assonance and (occasionally) metaphor...
...time he attracted the attention of the mighty Republican state machine, run by the mighty Boies Penrose. Martin describes his association with Penrose in metaphor: "As a youngster I sat on Penrose's knee...
This description by a Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30-year-old Englishwoman who has spent several years working among the insane...
William T. Sanders '50, an Anthropology concentrator, used a vigorous and unprintable metaphor in an interview yesterday to indicate his skepticism at reporter's efforts to interpret the importance of McCown's priceless collection of Neanderthal bones. Sanders characterized one printed report as "a bunch...
Even couched in the metaphor of a novel, history is best written from an eminence of years, and Sinclair's vehicle is now pulling abreast of its own times. In his latest, Sinclair adds little to the bare newspaper stories but a bushy growth of prose and an air of implausibility...