Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber at all. But I have purchased many a copy of TIME from newsstands-here in the U. S and in France (Brentano's) as well. And I feel that I have a right to be heard, when I have a grievance. I view wlth considerable disfavor the phrase "Thos. Cook & Son and other panders of rubberneckery", occurring in your issue of Sept. 21, page 12, column 3. " With my late husband, I traveled extensively, both in Europe and the East, under the auspices or with the assistance of agents of Thos. Cook & Sons. Believe me, they were more...
...play was disappointing. The vogue of Mr. Arlen has thinned with the increasing opinion that a good deal of his material is shoddy. It is highly colored but the dyes run. He does not talk as people talk; his new idiom is not sufficiently imaginative to wear. The phrase, employed by TIME (Sept. 22, 1924) when his books first began to sweep the land, remains the best description: he is the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates...
Ever since the disastrous period of 1920-21, merchants and manufacturers alike have endeavored to secure the highest possible profits with the smallest possible inventories. Such a policy, to be profitable, requires very rapid "turnover of stock", and just this phrase has become a fetish throughout U. S. business...
...pleasant sure to see one's name in print," and very nice of you indeed to mention in TIME, Sept. 7, Page 5, our recent attempt "towards Swampscott," but in legal phrase an exception is noted as to the word "rushed." The Lord, also Secretary Sanders, knows we did not rush; on the contrary we patiently awaited Senator Bingham's release of the President which did not occur until about 5 p. m. As this was too late for the hoped-for visit, we were persuaded to hold our "peace" until the President returns to Washington...
...countless numbers of the neat obituaries in the morgue of the Daily News, as in those of every other existing paper, occurs the phrase "His work was his recreation." It was true of Lawson. When he was in Europe a few years ago, a man 'of over 70, with his lifework behind him, he cabled daily 3,000 words of detailed comment and instruction to the News? received from that journals executives 5,000 words of questions and reports. His wife asked him to learn golf. He tried it, gave it up, said...