Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty phrase, for the training which these women receive equips them to enter other professions. Some, broadening and deepening as the years pass, make excellent mothers to rich little children; others keep their figures and their friends and go on entertaining long after their footlight days are over; a few seek fame. Last week one Mary Lewis was engaged by Gatti-Casazza to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Before her debut in January as Mimi in La Bohème she will give a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black and gold, the aspiring incense, the candles, gongs and musical invocations of the Mother of Christ that are the Church's heritage from Rome. They are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, yet they called their meeting "the first Anglo-Catholic Congress to be held...
...sacraments, the Catholic Episcopalians insist upon seven-the seven-pointed lights in the seven-branched candlestick of Rome. Confession is obligatory. Stoups for Holy Water have recently been installed in Anglo-Catholic parishes in Manhattan. Holy communion is spoken of as "mass"; indeed, a "Solemn High Mass" was the phrase with which an official handbook described the service for which the members of the congress gathered upon the second day of their meeting. It was aptly chosen...
...answer I leave to you. Though retiring and shy, I believe it to be the right of CRIMSON readers to find my words of wisdom (the phrase is from one of my admirers) in the most convenient possible place...
...recently read advertisements of The Ladies Home Journal, which appeared in the Press, it is possible that he pondered dubiously over the phrase "authoritative service to Womanhood." For the advertisements ran in part...