Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They coined the phrase "Yale Spirit," as synonymous of unconquerable determination, and made the Bulldog, an animal of more courage than refinement the symbol of the college...
Aptly and concisely to describe her singing, one would have to go to Keats for the phrase "singing in full-throated ease." Mme. Gauthier possesses that limpidness and clear contour of tone necessary for the singer of the eighteenth century Italians, but she succeeded best, as far as her first group of songs was concerned, with the "Cradle Song" of William Byrd, a composer of Elizabethan England. The outstanding thing in her program, however, was her group of American songs. She sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece...
...Pitiful" was the phrase of the press in commenting on a figure that strayed about in the vicinity of the meeting room of the Democratic National Committee. W. J. Bryan-pitiful! He was not invited to speak; tie did not gain entrance as a proxy. He was hardly more than a hanger on-while the Committee voted to take its Convention to Manhattan, the place which W. J. B. used to call "the enemy's country...
Pacifism is described as "Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of the war." I have a vague notion that if I could grasp the meaning of that phrase, I should most certainly disagree with it. Pacifism, in some cases, may have been used as a cloak to hide cowardice but it has grown out of clear-cut, highminded thinking and has been fostered by a greater courage and a more noble...
Senator Spencer: "I don't think it's a very apt phrase. It isn't clear. I don't know myself how reactionary the multiplication table...