Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the phrase "flower of England" was used to describe the young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord...
Chatting in her column about one thing & another, Eleanor Roosevelt reminisced about the "Hoover depression," a phrase minted by the Democrats, widely circulated by her husband, and used as legal tender by a whole generation. Wrote she: "If only we can avoid a repetition of the depression that culminated in Mr. Hoover's administration, we will be very fortunate. This depression, of course, had nothing to do with President Hoover's policies, but was the result of after-war activities by certain groups...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...
...picking up Neumann's words, sentence by sentence, intoned: "And on this great French holiday in Berlin we honor the ideals of Fraternity, Equality and . . ."The audience roared as the harassed translator appealed in a whisper to Neumann for the third word. Neumann gave fire to the worn phrase by shouting in German: "We here in Berlin know what it is! Liberty...
...From womb to tomb" was the British phrase for it. When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...