Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right, no doubt, that professors should be "progressive" and "modern". So it ought to be gratifying to hear Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard say, in the contemporary classic tongue, that "we have been fed up on our ancestors." The expressive phrase in the mouth of the historian indicates he jauntiness which a Professor of History must show to prove that he has no old-fashioned ideas about "the dignity of history." Beautiful old Professor Torrey of the Cambridge of fifty years ago, who looked like an eighteenth century French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech...
...point out as "typically American", a that of a poor boy fighting his way to leadership. Members of the University who are fortunate enough to hear Mr. Schwab at the Union tonight will come away with the convictions that if Mr. Schwab's career is "typically American", the phrase is synonymous with energy, farsightedness, and a delightful personality...
...bury the last man on earth has alison more forcibly than ever. And the American Bankers' Association is wondering whether "America First" may not in the end result in America last--and unburied. Mr. Lamont in his address before the assembly compares the well-worn phrase with one almost more worn and hitherto more sinister "Deutschland Uber Alles...
...rest, hats off to Mr. Hudson! As a certain well-known periodical would phrase it. "We nominate for the Hall of Fame, Mr. Hudson, because he has written a "novel of today" with a subject and a predicate in every sentence...
...dominance which Mr. Mantell often created were dispelled by a straining for laughs and comic effects, obtained by broad and undignified comic by-play, almost as soon as they were gained. "That inherent majesty of soul, that simplicity of demeanour, and that overwhelming power" which the actor and phrase-loving William Winter once found in Mr. Mantell's Richelieu were grievously lacking on Monday night. In place of these praiseworthy qualities one found a lack of finesse, a lack of dignity, and a rough sketchiness of character delineation which were disconcerting. In addition Mr. Mantell displayed a pronounced fondness...