Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driving a car under a license of a "foreign" state, grave penalties are to be meted out to a penitent company. The phrase, "one hundred dollar fine" drops lightly form the lips of officers, and falls like a death-knell upon the ears of those unfortunates who now loudly boast their independence of Massachusetts and things Bostonian...
Issue of Oct. 21, p. 17, "General Pershing's 'Lafayette, we are here.' " Not his. Col. Charles E. Stanton, U.S.A., now of San Francisco, spoke for ''Black Jack" at Picpus Cemetery, and coined the phrase. When Stanton wrote his speech in advance of delivering it, Pershing read it and inked his O.K. on it. The manuscript belongs to the Family (club) of S.F. The phrase is its preoration. Furthermore, Pershing gave Stanton credit some years ago in a letter published in Collier...
...concession was made by Senator Norris. He accepted into his resolution a phrase suggested by Senator Glenn of Illinois that Bingham's action was "not the result of corrupt motives." Thus softened, the Norris resolution was adopted by the Senate, 54 to 22, old guard Republicans supporting their Connecticut colleague...
Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot. Now he confines himself to sherry, champagne His black silk stock, early Victorian wing collar and frock coat attract stares. An English wisecracker, he likes to pin actors with a phrase. Besides the Express, he writes for the London Bystander, for Manhattan's slangy Variety (stage trade journal whose language Editor Sime Silverman defends on the grounds that Variety caters "strictly to hams and theatre managers and acrobats...
...Marquis can write simply, but would rather write arabesques. When he rides his high horse, he is a long way off the ground. But sometimes he gets a startling phrase. In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a part of the fauna of these regions, moving like a gray slug among their distempered flora...