Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal impression is that the first two hundred pages of Sorokin's first volume contain the decisive argument, but D. W. Prall thinks so little of that volume that we might well summarize his tortuous arguments in the good old American phrase...
TIME denies any ribald intention in translating Pliny's phrase as it did, holds that idiomatic sense is more sacred than a literal translation, and a damn sight less harmful...
...gratifying indeed to note that under the able tutelage of his wife, Mr. Lewis' education has progressed to the point where he is familiar with Messrs Gladstone and Disraeli. I am also sure that he would certainly have given proper credit to the originator of the phrase, instead of palming it off as his own, except for the fact that like myself he cannot remember whether Gladstone said this of Disraeli or vice versa...
Broadway perennially bemoans the collapse of the road. For the Lunts the road has never failed. Since The Guardsman they have, in Alfred Lunt's phrase, gone buckety-buckety over the U. S., always sure of a hearty welcome from coast to coast. The Lunts put this success down to a variety of good plays. The nation puts it down to the bickering, wrestling, fighting, cooing, unfailingly endearing intimacy of Lunt-Fontanne on-stage relations, their expert charm. The Guild paired them in Arms and the Man, The Goat Song, At Mrs. Beam's, Pygmalion, Juarez and Maximilian...
...likely that the old phrase survived in the South, side by side with other expressions brought from England but no longer in general use ? Certainly I heard it more than once in my younger days...