Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, he was getting ready to meet Queen Frederika at Athens' Hassani airport; the Queen was his special favorite-he had once referred to her, within King Paul's hearing, with a Greek phrase that can be translated as "quite a dish." Sophoulis, as he was dressing, said to his housekeeper: "When I was ill the Queen came to see me and brought me flowers. She is so sweet." A few minutes later, death, as it must to all men, came to Themistocles Sophoulis. King Paul asked Right-Winger Constantin Tsaldaris, now Foreign Minister, to succeed...
...current issue, LIFE reports on the ideas that went round & round. Samples: ¶Creativeness in Hollywood is stifled by U.S. theater owners, who control the industry, reap most of its profits, and want nothing from it but, in Mankiewicz's phrase, "400 items of salable merchandise every year." The creators may get their big chance when the Government finally splits theater ownership from production. ¶The moviemakers recognize that a low-budget "special audience" film, e.g., Home of the Brave, can turn a profit without a mass audience, but Hollywood is geared to supply the bigger audience, where...
John L. Lewis, whose prose style moves in the empurpled outer reaches of the language, is no man to call a strike simply a strike. He prefers to call it a "memorial holiday" or a "spontaneous" walkout. Last week, Lewis rumbled out a new and fancy phrase for it. The heavy supply of coal on hand, said the chief, had produced "menacing instability" in the industry, threatening the national economy, and even the United Mine Workers. To correct this situation, Lewis proclaimed "a brief stabilizing period of inaction...
...save on babysitting, 2) the aged and physically handicapped and 3) farmers and factory workers ducking the ritual of dressing up to go to a movie in town. The drive-ins are also popular with young neckers, but exhibitors deny that their places are, in Variety's phrase, "passion pits with pix." Their righteous defense: nothing happens that doesn't go on in a balcony...
...might add that I have condensed this conversation a good deal. But even in its original form, it meant nothing to me. Snappy backs? Godin? Firing line? I made polite murmurs of agreement, just to draw my companion out, to see if he would mention one name or one phrase that I could comprehend. It was useless...