Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business men as a relaxation. In his garden, country club, harem, is a variety of unfortunate and very lovely young women who have presumably come there from the various assemblies of his revues. He is just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor is copyrighted and its use forbidden, no matter how great the temptation). That's where the man from Syracuse comes in. The soul-scalper is played by Rockliffe Fellowes in a manner to reinforce the growing judgment that he is about the next star to be discovered...
When Premier MacDonald signed the treaty with Soviet Russia early in August, political prognosticators termed the action "the first note in Labor's funeral march". Perhaps the metaphor was a bit premature, for certainly MacDonald was not yet dead. But if the storm of protest that arose immediately after the document was signed can be taken as a symptom, there can be little doubt that the Government was in a critical position...
...experiments in diction and in metaphor seek the sharply out effects which are the glory of the Imagists,--and frequently attain them. Lowell writes of the advantage which the early risers of literature have over us moderns in gathering words while the dew is still fresh on them. When a word which once had a single exact meaning has been worked to nervous prostration what can we do but invent either a new word or a new use of an old one? When the best metaphors have become an old story, what can we do but bring together in fresh...
Heywood Broun, famed theatre critic: "In a play criticism I concocted a mixed metaphor: 'It is not unreasonable that it [the Provincetown Playhouse] should occasionally bring forth base metal...
Clinton W. Gilbert, author of The Mirrors of Washington and correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, delivered himself of an egregious metaphor, highly complimentary to C. Coolidge...