Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This ominous phrase, simplified, means, explained II Duce, that with-in the next twelvemonth the present Chamber of Deputies will be replaced by a parliament elected from the "corporations" or committees which alone now represent in Italy the classes of employers and employed (TIME...
Wendell Phillips' phrase, about John Brown having "letters of marque from God," accurately describes the religious zealot who conducted midnight reprisals of lives and livestock against the proponents of slavery in "Bloody Kansas" and who, in 1858, withdrew to Canada to formulate a design as unusual as it was drastic...
...hard of hearing prefer this adjective phrase to "deaf," which has acquired connotations of scorn and taunt...
Stubborn Shut-Eye would surely have insisted that no U. S. magazine save Editor H. L. Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury would make fun of the Bible Belt. Why, Editor Mencken virtually invented that damning phrase. No month passes without its appearance, many times repeated, on that page of the American Mercury dedicated to exposing the mental fumbles and spiritual solecisms of Mr. Mencken's "booboisie" to his admiring acolytes...
Sirs: The enclosed footnote- appeared in TIME, April 11, giving credit to Senator Borah, as an apt phrase maker. Senator Borah is everything you claim for him, and I have the highest regard for the Senator and his work. However, there is a question as to the particular phrase which you have credited him with making. On Nov. 28, 1921, I attended a meeting addressed by Mr. William Jennings Bryan, at which he said he was asked by Mr. Barrett to give to the Pan-American Building, in Washington, a photograph of himself, and, a sentiment to go with...