Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...
...importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
Asido from this initial difficulty, what of the commuter (to drop our metaphor) who, changing his locale, comes to live at the college; or what of him that abandons dormitory-life for residence at home? Does the first become, tipso facto, "assimilated", and the second, vice versa...
...there are better and fairer ways to enjoy brotherhood with the new infant. One man has discovered an excellent way, for--to continue the metaphor he admits the child's right to dominance and, freed from the responsibility of such prestige, goes his way rejoining. So his lectures are but marginal notes on his text, modern and succinct comments by a scholar and gentleman upon a masterpiece of literatures. And Seniors attend his lectures for the gain to be derived from his personality and his knowledge...
...human action in near-at-home areas of the spiritual plane rather than in those physiological resorts whose vogue seems to increase with their distance from normal life. The Professor's House has been declared "unsubstantial" beside One of Ours and A Lost Lady. Perhaps, but as a metaphor for that imperceptible reversal of adolescence that comes over all men, which they call middle-age and which is tragic or not, according as their lives have been spent with or without spirit, it is crystal clear, thoroughly native, unforgettable...