Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was, and not many years ago, when a subject of the Sultan was known as the "unspeakable Turk," a phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle and afterwards much used in political parlance...
Last week the phrase received a new twist: Mustafa Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish Republic, announced his intention of delivering, on October 15, 16, 17, 18, a 400,000-word* speech over the radio reviewing in detail the history of the Nationalist government...
...remain for people a wild and impossible conjecture. Most people, with casual cowardice, do not contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
...Good evening, Ladies & Gentlemen of the radio audience" has become almost a trademarked phrase to the listening world. It means Graham McNamee. A letter with no other address than that was delivered by the postal service to WEAF, headquarters studio of the National Broadcasting Co. Inc., Mr. McNamee's employer...
...Certainly I'm a regular editor of the Advocate," declared Essenz von Bierschaum, the Advocate parrot, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, and emphasized her statement with a resounding phrase from her nautical past that the reporter felt forced to censor...