Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That famous phrase, "I do not choose," Is once more headlined in the news; La Follette thinks it's much more fun To make it read "you shall...
Said Critic Richard L. Stokes of the New York Evening World: "Her very comprehensible alarm had not been conquered when the moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...
...fields, to fit the art, the music and the literature of a period into a complementary whole, rather than one that might have to be patched together by scraps of old notes and elusive recollections. And Dean Hawkes says out his faith in such glimpsing of Parnassus in his phrase "A student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work...
...Presidential tongue having slipped on "President Hoover" (see BOOMS), and newsgatherers having made holiday with the phrase, President Coolidge issued a new press order. Hereafter, the semiweekly visit which newsgatherers are permitted to make at the White House and at which they may submit written questions, shall not be regarded or referred to in any sense as an interview. There must be no reference to questions asked and answered; no direct revelation of what the President is thinking about. The Presidential thoughts shall be "background," not "news...
Ingenious cross-referencing according to rank revealed that while professors and associate professors put most emphasis on Dependability and Sincerity, Scholarliness was admitted the universal requisite among instructors and assistant professors. Point is lent thereby to the phrase recently used by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin "the stifling influence of graduate scholarship." Confession like this is good for the academic soul...