Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some days ago the New York Herald Tribune characterized H. L. Mencken as a "Professional Smart Aleck," a phrase which aptly describes those who write such stuff as "Came an eagle" and "a rival musnud of learning" in TIME, April 12, pp. 33, 34... Let me remind you that this sort of thing has been going on for two* years, and...ceases to be funny...
...their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...
...debt is to cede to us her possessions in the West Indies, which are of no use to her, but which would be of inestimable value to us as outposts to protect our coast and to protect the Panama Canal. Every one of them, to borrow a phrase of Napoleon, is a cannon pointed at the heart of the United States...
...sons of great men begin life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
...have been greatly troubled (and not only I, but also many of my acquaintances) by a single phrase in this morning's editorial on the new requirements for admission. In commending the proposed plan, the editorial notes that it helps to exclude from college a large unassimilable element, which includes "commuters". Now, thus to separate goats and sheep is most perturbing, especially since this classification is not zoological, but is based on a question of habitat...