Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder whether some people may not be misled by the phrase "go to the front but refuse to kill" placed under my picture. The fact is, of course, that although that is one of the possibilities for pacifists mentioned in the handbook, there are probably no religious pacifists in the U. S. who would advocate or take that course. Personally, I would refuse to render any service, combatant or noncombatant, under military orders...
...funds to expand foreign markets and remove domestic surpluses of commodities or commodity products. Under this authority, and that latent in the 1939 Farm Appropriation Bill, he may spend $50,000,000 in subsidizing export cotton and cotton products. This was the first time that the "products" phrase of the authority had been used, and it was a politically agile move, since nobody has damned the New Deal, particularly its Wage & Hour Bill, harder than Southern textile men. He now announced that, beginning July 27, every person who exports U. S. cotton will be paid a subsidy...
...refer to U. S. trip as "coming out here." "To the American this suggests he is on the periphery, a provincial, perhaps even a colonial. . . . The truly ingratiating phrase would be 'over here...
...commands higher rates in slick-paper magazines writes these stories for fun. But writers as well as readers take their predictions seriously. Ray Cummings, a veteran pseudo-fictioneer who once was Thomas Edison's secretary, claims to have originated in his stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow. Says he: "It is astonishing how many things come true." Chief themes of scientifiction are rocket trips by earth-dwellers to other planets, invasions of the earth by Martians, Mercurians. Authors may be as fantastic as they like in their inventions but publishers warn them...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 97%; voice quality excellent, delivery excellent, mannerisms good, poise excellent. "His Harvard accent . . . would alienate him at once from the common man were it not overcome by the deep sincerity of his radio presentation." Only other noticeable blemish: the phrase "My friends," which "now seems like a radio trick...