Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
There is a prize in every package One can imagine the creative glee that whispers over warming tid-bit: "Get this in," and to those whose job it is to let them see-enough to make them want more the added phrase. "All the windows on the avenue." And they get it in. Excitement, that thermometer of human nature testifies to their success...
Rhymester Kellaher's inspiration was the following phrase "Citizens of the Republic were put on their metal. . . ." (TIME, Nov. 19). To a TIME writer a reprimand for spelling by ear. To Rhymester Kellaher all credit for putting TIME on its mettle...
...advance them in a book amused some Unitarians, some independent admirers of a man Jesus, who have put by all supernatural elements in Scripture as fictional. They came as a shock only to hardfast fundamentalists of the evangelistic type, like Dr. John Roach Straton, who insist that every phrase in the Bible is "gospel truth," inerrant...
...phrase, "in conference," to most people, educated by comic strips, signifies: "out playing golf," or "unfit to receive callers." Actually, of course, it means something else. It can be seen that the life of Thomas Fortune Ryan was, in its most important aspects, a succession of meetings with other men, an endless series of discussions and conversations, held in big, gloomy rooms, over lunch tables, or on street corners in Wall Street 40 years ago. Each of these conferences had its own specific results; as far as Thomas Fortune Ryan was concerned, the result was often an addition, large...