Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elder brother, living under the same roof (and this is no mere metaphor) the Bulletin ventures to suggest an abatement in the firecracker brand of undergraduate journalism. The CRIMSON has a good tradition to maintain, a tradition which contains no yellow streak. It is the dally organ, not of its editors alone, but of the entire membership of the University. These editors abide their little hour and go their way, but the tradition of the paper ought to be in their hands a trust. --Alumni Bulletin...
...English by Harper. The third volume, on Renaissance Art, has come from the press, preceded by Ancient and Medieval, and to be followed by Modern. The books are not easy to read, but they repay a little delving. Faure is a brilliant stylist, his word-stream brimming with metaphor and colorful imagery, always intent upon inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention as well as painting. He has not produced...
...Golf Metaphor. Ex-Premier Lloyd...
...page book is written with characteristic Lloyd Georgian vigor and is full of sonorous metaphor. The Ruhr gets attention. Says he: "If Poincaré is out for reparation, his policy will inevitably fail in comparison with that which he so rashly threw over; but if he is out for trouble it has been a great success and in the future it will be an even greater triumph for his statesmanship. The permanent garrison in the Ruhr has possibilities of mischief which it does not require any special vision to foresee...
...chair rather than word-desk writings. And there we found another difficulty at once. The book has two levels; one literary, one semi-journalistic, and we bounced around between the two for quite a time before we got used to the changes of pace. (There is a line mixed metaphor to serve as an opening for you, Chris...