Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed to head their Chinese Government. Next day from Wu's spokesman came his usual denial. A crafty Japanese censor at Peiping had read a telegram General Wu had sent to friends in which he said he was ready "to overcome any difficulties to secure peace." The phrase, said the spokesman, was lifted from the wire, sent to Japan where Domei converted it into an acceptance of Japan's offer...
...earthy episodes, he beats the lot. Examples: >The headmaster of his grammar school in Gorcum, Holland, was a tightlipped, frog-eyed, wrinkled Huguenot with the curling fingernails of a Chinese mandarin and the literal severity of a Spanish Inquisitor. He beat a boy to unconsciousness for writing the phrase "snowflakes fluttering from a pitilessly gray heavenly roof." Heaven, it seemed, was never pitiless. After morning prayers he took snuff, which made him sneeze so vehemently that he staggered. This staggering, says the author, was the only physical exercise he ever took. > In Bourg, France, where van Paassen lived...
...this phrase sounds a trifle odd and strained at the moment, surely it is not because of any inherent peculiarity, but because our ears of late have been assaulted with catchwords of far different and more ominous connotations which appear to sway the world...
...years a New York Timesman, who launched the phrase "brains trust," helped found the American Newspaper Guild, is now secretary to Mayor LaGuardia...
...bearded General Anton Denikin, commander of the White armies in their last-ditch fight against the Reds in the south of Russia in 1918-20, emerged from his Paris retirement last week to excoriate any "socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological...