Word: mots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, anything that called for an immediate copyright. But still, The Crime is never very funny, and the editors could not be blind to the fact that the Radcliffe contributions were well above their usual standard. A mot, for instance...
...modernist? But no, I am not a modernist. That is a debauched term (mot compromisé). The modernists set out to shock the bourgeoisie, and they only succeed in pleasing the Bolsheviki. My music is neither 'futurist' nor 'passéist,' but the music of today...
...Berlin despatch represented Dutch newspapers as terrified to give currency to the following tale, said to be common property and mot du jour in the Netherlands...
...World Advertising Conven- tion in London, President O. C. Harn of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (touchstone of the publishing business) reminded his hearers of un mot credited to Stanley Clague of Chicago, also prominent in the A. B. C. Mr. Clague once saluted advertising as "the Fifth Estate" of contemporary society, recalling a salutation of Edmund Burke, famed English orator, who styled the Press "a Fourth Estate," more powerful than the three recognized estates of England in his day-the lords temporal, the lords spiritual, the Commons...
...company with others of his kind, it is natural that he should take pleasure in statistical tabulations of the tastes and ancles of his fellows. One of the latest of these diversions is a poll among some few hundreds of the cognoscente- a term which has recently become "le mot juste" among the intelligentsia--to determine the ten best books published since...