Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many a current slang phrase or expression is the creation of a dizzy brain overheard and remembered by a clearer head. The streets of New York between midnight and dawn, when the inebriates come sailing home, are productive fields for the professional wise cracker," answered Mr. Catlett when asked about the source of his humorous sayings...
Died. Heyward Hall McAllister, '65, last surviving son of famed Manhattan social arbiter, the late Ward McAllister, who coined the phrase "the 400," by remarking to a reporter, "After all, there are only about 400 persons in Society"; at Mentone, French Riviera. The New York Herald-Tribune concluded his obituary notice with the words: "The name of Heyward Hall McAllister is not in the 'Social Register...
Promiscuous vulgarity is inexcusable, but the quoted phrase as a description of some of Mr. Sherwood Anderson's work does not seem altogether out of place...
...characters from one level of existence to another, from fact to fancy and back again, so that right before our very eyes reality as though by magic melts away into unreality and a new fantastic world comes to life right in our midst by the deft turn of a phrase. Towards the end of the third act, right after the most realistic scene in the whole play, one of the characters turns to the landlady and asks her to make a second at chess. "But I do not play chess", remonstrates the landlady, "I only play checkers!" "That makes...
...Block that kick! Block that kick ! "The Yale cheering section repeated the phrase monotonously in the belief that it would annoy Slagle (Princeton) who was about to punt. Evidently it did, for Slagle, instead of kicking, started for the Yale right end with the ball under his arm. A few moments later he was 82 yards farther down the field, which was as far as he needed to go. In the next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible...