Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Depression, was one of almost equally intense suffering and heartbreak for President Herbert Hoover and his Republican advisers encamped in Washington. Last week President Hoover went to Valley Forge, now a military park, to deliver a Memorial Day address in which he drew a parallel between his own troubles and General Washington's. President Hoover has never been called a Republican stand-patter. But his advice to the country, to emulate Washington at Valley Forge, may supply a slogan for the 1932 campaign: "Stand Steadfast!" In the 17-minute Valley Forge speech the word "steadfast" recurred seven emphatic times...
...Memorial Hall, he labored for hours over the 56 passages which were given for English 2, under the now traditional heading: "Interpret, discuss, supply information, as the case may require. Answers should be full, precise, and well expressed. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages. Indicate the context. Do not copy the questions." Yes, that does cover the situation pretty well, on the whole...
Efforts of the famous driver to park his short-wheelbase car parallel to curb provided amusement. Thrice he made the attempt, once missing the proper angle altogether, second time clashing bumpers with car in rear and third time climbing the curb. Provoked, he backed the rear wheels up to the curb, left front protrude into line of traffic...
...March 4, 1929, a romantic parallel could have been drawn between the two big destinies. Mr. Hoover, onetime orphan on an Iowa farm, had the power and the plans for making the world's most prosperous nation more prosperous and happy than it had ever been before. Mr. Eaton, whose birthplace, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, had already benefited from his financial greatness, had power and plans only one degree smaller. A potent public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest...
...week. Grey-haired, slender and 48. he was born in Ballarat, Australia, still speaks with a rich bush-twang. He emerged from the War a witty cynic with an artistic manner reminiscent of Beerbohm the Exquisite, but with an even surer command of line. Possibly to make the Beerbohm parallel less marked he adopted etching as his medium two years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written cap tions that accompany them: A satanic gargoyle looking down on New York says, "Ah well, one lives and learns, one lives and learns." Jehovah being berated...