Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stationery of the Republican National Committee, in a circular letter to the Republican ladies of Virginia, signed by National Committeewoman Mrs. Willie W. Caldwell, appeared the phrase: "... Romanized and rum-ridden...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Richard Felton Outcault, 65, who caused the phrase, "yellow journalism," and had a good time doing...
...phrase was first applied by the late Ervin Wardman, then publisher of the New York Herald...
...catch is the phrase "allegiance to the Crown." It recently enabled Governor Sir William Robert Campion of Western Australia to refuse (as His Majesty's representative) to sign a certain money bill passed by the Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
Rivals of HotchKiss, the Hill School boys arrived last week in Pottstown, Pennsylvania-Dutch town, where the phrase "the coffee is all" means "there is no more coffee." All the boys were very excited. Not only were they at school, but "Jimmy" Wendell was their headmaster...