Word: phrased
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expansion of this branch of the University increases its reputation in peace times and makes it more serviceable in times of strife. The policy of "business as usual" has been much criticized, but as the present ideal of the graduate school it deserves praise. To this body, however, the phrase means as not heedlessness to the patriotic demands made on every citizen, but rather increased service to the Government by learning now more than ever the principles of business. As the purpose of the training is always practical, the value therefore is as great in war as in peace...
...same time beloved. More important, perhaps, he presented to young men of an age when example counts quite as much as precept a conspicuous instance of what a soldier's life should be, a combination of clean living, clear thinking, and hard work that gave significance to the phrase "an officer and a gentleman...
...plot concerns a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested, but ultimately wins the wager on a technicality. The play is suitably adapted for amateur production and for college performances...
...Broadway. The play has since toured the country and has proved itself particularly adaptable to amateur and especially college productions, as it abounds in witty lines and amusing situations. The plot revolves around a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested but wins the wager on a technicality...
...accepts it freely and boldly, as if born to the purple. In "The Question" one is struck first of all by the individuality and evocative quality of the diction, then by the sustained sweep and music of the line, as contrasted with the briefer felicity of Mr. Norris' phrase. In fact, the two poets present an interesting and suggestive opposition throughout. If in Mr. Norris I find sentiment, fancy, wit--in the older sense--in Mr. Hillyer I find, above all, passion and imagination. But their latest poems are both equally beautiful in their different ways, and both offer promise...