Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that happens in the picture has a carefully documented and persuasive authenticity. Far more successful than Robert Taylor's rigidly uninspired performance as the hero are those of Robert McWade, Frank Conroy and Sidney Blackmer respectively as Dewey, McKinley and Roosevelt I. Good shot: Roosevelt polishing up his phrase about the Big Stick*at a Cabinet meeting, which he leaves to "go for a ride with Alice...
...Small choice among rotten apples" was the phrase which Merriman said best epitomized the English and French sentiment toward the warring parties in Spain. Any outcome would be "poor for the rest of Europe," he stated...
...main points of academic freedom and civil liberties, President Angell was sharply rebuked for his letter, characterized as "ill-advised" and "indiscreet," to Dean Weigle of the Divinity School, written when its faculty board was about to vote on Professor Davis's reappointment. The report quoted the following phrase from the letter: "I must say that I think Jerome is becoming an increasing nuisance and my patience is inevitably wearing rather thin...
...quote continues, "Princeton men are usually very sociable and pleasing. Williams men are very nice, though not as glamorous." The "snooping reporter" was baffled by the subtle mellowed-with-learning phrase "saturated with Boston," which the young girls applied to Harvard men, and unfortunately took it as a n insult, called it a "rather dubious rating...
...thousand years older. It is not surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George VI no longer protects one religion; he stands for faith in the whole past and for the service of tradition to the troubles of today...