Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed Japanese publicists Teisuka Akiyama and Seijiro Kawashima detonated into lurid phrase again last week, called upon Japan to declare war on the U. S., rehashed with venom the celebrated "Hanihara incident."† (TIME, April...
Meanwhile, 50,000 eager sightseers had rushed to catch a phrase from three distinguished speakers: Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia, "a visualization of the progress of the world"; Secretary of State Kellogg, "exploitation of our potentialities"; Secretary of Commerce Hoover, "moral and spiritual awakening . . . maintain our position in the world...
Emerson writes that silly phrase, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"?silly because the greatness is complete, the "oneself" has been sung. The rest is controversial and boisterous"Walt the boastful, Walt the Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...
That the college is capable of doing such a thing in such a spirit, that, in a crisis in a spectacular major sport, it can avoid the hysteria that is proverbially expressed in the phrase of the over-excited substitute: "Why, sir, I'd die for dear old Rutgers" is a sign that the attitude of the University in regard to athletics is well advanced in a metamorphosis that no one can regret. It is not that undergraduates are being drawn out of an interest in athletics: It is rather that their interest is being transferred from a false dependence...
...Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago told that the "Serbian" phrase was the printing in reverse of, "The McMullens will steal this sure...