Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know these Englishmen. You have clean missed the point in footnoting Codger P.-Jones' mild complaint (TIME, April 15). There is, in your publication, a certain TIMEly aptness of phrase peculiarly satisfying to American sensibilities. But to an Englishman, and God forbid that he should feel otherwise, these "flippancies" are all very well when referring to a mere Foreign Secretary or Prime Minister. But in reference to Royalty, Never...
...over for film use and a windy, incredible courtroom scene introduced'. Her cast is bad and her director no genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness of the phrase, she turns her difficulties to assets, brings vividly to life the southern smalltown coquette who liked one fellow too well to suit her father. Best shot of any talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded...
...would be pleased to receive a copy of the memorial to Briton Hadden. I want it for the boys in whose hands I can place it-the story of a boy in our own age who, to use Dr. Fosdick's phrase, was ''carried outside himself by something greater than himself to which he gave himself...
...York's Hotel Ambassador, last fortnight, nervous and be-spatted Publisher Harrison refused to discuss onetime Editor Frankau. He also refused to discuss the purpose of his visit to the U.S., beyond the usual foreigner's phrase: "I am studying America." But, in alternately low-voiced and explosive sentences, he was ready to speak of his fondness for golf; his many publications (including Tatler, Sketch, and Daily Chronicle); his 25 paper mills in England, Scotland, Germany; and his 1,500,000 acres of esparto grass in northern Africa...
...drawn by Senator Jones of Washington, to increase the penalties for Volstead violations. Congress wanted to punish habitual violators more memorably than at present, and a peculiar phrase was inserted in the act instructing judges to "discriminate." The rest of the act was also peculiar, because...