Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little group, assembled in the offices of his magazine in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, stirred uneasily. Each phrase read by Editor Wright came from one of 284 epistles which were being expertly opened by Publisher Orson D. Munn...
...look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body when reproducing the scene of a murder, a stock phrase was used, " X marks the spot. . . ." How this phrase is vanishing from journalism was deplorably demonstrated last week by two Manhattan gum-chewers' sheets...
...vultures when a killing has occurred, jostle one another for a glimpse of the body while the blue-coated officer pushes them back. Such people pored with great enjoyment over the photograph of the maimed Flake, of the dead Belinskys, enchanted that from their favorite newspapers that annoying phrase, "X marks the spot," has disappeared...
...salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game is not so difficult to find as it is difficult to phrase. Tolerant people might pretend that it was the heady passing of Caulkins, the running of slippery Slagle, or dauntless Dignan, or the doings of an unheard-of Princeton back named Prendergast, who-sent into the game in the last five minutes-carried the ball ten times (almost in succession), and gained 89 yards. But such statements could only be evasions. The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game was the doltish performance of the Harvard eleven. Score: Princeton 36, Harvard...
...development of oratorical excellence in Brooklyn, will find some reflection in business letters. Perhaps, after a few courses of sixteen weeks each some more original formula can be devised as an opening sentence than. "Yours of the fifth instant to hand. In reply will say"; and some concluding phrase discovered, more genuine if less hearty, than: "With best wishes...