Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Dewey person's "blue-ribbon" jury: How does a "blue-ribbon" jury fit into the American picture? To use the old Stanford phrase "it looks fishy and so smells." Who is the donor of the ribbon? And who made him the holder of the ribbons...
...Sunday newspapers may not be able to start a war or elect a President, as they used to, but their circulation of 4,453,579 daily and 6,856,793 Sunday still stands supreme.* The highest law in this empire has always been what followed the electrifying phrase: "The Chief says-." Today, the potency of this phrase is a subject of much discussion in the newspaper world. "The Chief" is 75 years old. When a potentate ages, his princelings become more important...
...have always thought the phrase "Like a hog going to war" had to do with their indecision when they hit a slick spot...
TIME'S explanation of the phrase "as independent as a hog on ice" is weak...
TIME, which seems to delight in an occasional salty phrase like that one, might like to be reminded of "as pert as a barn rat" which would be an ideal descriptive locution for Simone Simon, and not bad for some of Mussolini's poses. If you are asked to explain that one, I'll be glad to take it apart...