Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plank was full of knots. It endorsed reciprocal trade agreements, but added a phrase which left the door open for high tariffs and a generally protectionist policy. Otherwise, the foreign policy section followed the precepts of Senator Vandenberg...
Young Miss Simmons has an unspoiled talent for speaking with an open voice or, in an old Shakespearean phrase of Robert Benchley's, from the heart rather than the roof of the mouth. She has an oblique, individual beauty and a trained dancer's continuous grace. As a result, she jerks genuine tears during scenes which ordinarily cause Shakespeare's greatest admirers to sneak out for a drink. Compared with most of the members of the cast, she is obviously just a talented beginner. But she is the only person in the picture who gives every...
That touched many an Irish heart. John Aloysius Costello, the Taoiseach, announced that he would himself go to London and offer the canned beef at a more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British-and to cherish them in their hour of adversity...
...King. One newspaper announced that Rivera had agreed to rub out the offending phrase and substitute another reading Negocio es negocio ("Business is business"). The painter hastily denied it. Hotel Director Luis Osio y Torres Rivas fumed that Rivera had promised, "on the word of a king," to put something different on Ramirez' placard, and then reneged on the grounds that he was, after all, "no king...
...Time of Your Life (United Artists) is William Saroyan's rosy look-in on a San Francisco saloon and, in the late Charles Butterworth's enduring phrase, its habitues and sons-of-habitues...