Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think it was necessary to put in the phrase "do not trust Mr. Lee" in your article reprinting the article concerning me in the October Mercury and printed in TIME, Oct. 4, p. 23 ? It may be that some newspaper men are not willing to put themselves in my hands but you imply by suggestion that newspaper men do not trust my word. I do not believe that you will find any newspaper men who question the accuracy of any statement that I make to them. I regret that the method you have used in quoting the article gives that...
...when he wants them to know it. Naturally, this sometimes conflicts in time and circumstance with professional curiosity and rivalries of some newspapermen. The incident culled by TIME from the Mercury was intended to illustrate a phase of this natural conflict. But, "do not trust" was decidedly the wrong phrase for the situation...
...where the Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, dean of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, L. I., draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned out in the trials of life." William Green, mine worker, Odd Fellow, Elk, Baptist, was at once chosen his successor as president...
...with great respect and the members of legislative committees called at his home before the day's session to see which bills were to be passed. To his legislators he gave orders rather than suggestions, but when he wrote to his Mayors he was careful to phrase his wishes in terms of a larger and collective power, the will of the Klan...
...some, "Lord Raingo" may appear a magnificent exposition of realism. But it is a case of homeopathic remedy administered in an allopathic dose. Mr. Bennett definitely crosses the line where realism merges into tautological flatulence. Elegence of style, felicity of phrase, restraint, suggestion these prerequisites to delight in reading, all are submerged in an ocean of microcosms, and uninteresting ones at that...