Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after he received an LL.D. from New York's Columbia University, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual...
...natural vote-getter; he has an Irish gift for phrase. But he refuses to indulge in dramatics. His automobiles-a black Cadillac and a black Plymouth sedan-bear no special licenses, no big red lights. "I don't like topside in government getting special favors," he says, "the peasants jumping out of the way and all that. I think people sort of like that stuff-but it's bad for them. Government should permeate. It shouldn't crush...
What did the phrase mean? The U.S. citizen would vociferously deny that he was the subject of any government-even in name. His government belonged to him; what his nation did, it did only with his consent and by his will. He was least of all a spokesman of imperialism. But when thousands of U.S. school children celebrated "I Am an American Day" each spring, they spoke for the greatest power on earth...
Piecemeal Approach. "Western Union" was one of the commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification...
...What the People Desire." Pollster Gallup is not unaware of the impact which all these rulers, yardsticks and thermometers have had on the workings of democracy. In his own defense, he likes to quote a phrase of Lincoln's: "What I want to get done is what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly...