Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phrase 'freedom of the press' is to have any meaning," he declared, "the press must combat restrictive influences outside the industry and its own inertia and acquiescence to the status...
Last week, even the Supreme Court deserted the purists. Under a local law, the Monterrey firm of Guadelupe Gonzalez S.A. had been convicted of using the French phrase Modes comme il faut in its advertising. The court not only reversed this judgment but ordered the local authorities to let the firm alone henceforth. The Spanish language, said the court, had not been harmed, and besides, the firm had printed under the French phrase the Spanish words Modes como deben...
...Thorne-Thomsen, whose royalty checks amounted to $10,000 last year, scorns sound effects ("I leave off that nonsense") and trick settings ("The simple phrase, 'Once upon a time,' has more magic than all the theatrical stunts in the world"). Said she: "I know how the old folks who made the stories in the beginning told them. I try to tell them the same...
...Less Taft." The next day the "eat less" quote made headlines. Democrats, remembering G.O.P. protests against the deaths of small pigs during the New Deal, delightedly considered ways & means of exploiting it. Longshoremen chanted the phrase as they picketed one of Taft's appearances at Santa Cruz...
...Coldblooded murder" was Randolph Churchill's phrase for the execution of the top Nazis. Winston's far-flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...