Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling in Japan was extraordinary. Even the most anti-American press had what appeared to be genuine praise for him, his personality, his kindness, his open-mindedness. The phrase that he had "endeared himself to the Japanese" was used repeatedly. Short as his service was, it had been signally successful...
...phrase of the Garrick Gaieties (now on Broadway), though Friedrich Augustus III once had a "seat on his throne," he has since been "thrown on his seat...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER?Harris E. Starr?Holt ($4.00). "Exemplary biography." Sound phrase. Aged and middle-aged Yale men, sipping coffee and nursing cigars, go back to William Graham Sumner, professor at Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year...
...Milner's own phrase, Mr. Gladstone was 'governed by his seraglio.' This foible had considerable political effect. One affair turned Mr. Gladstone from being a friend of Turkey and an enemy of Russia, as he was in the '50s, into being a friend of Russia and an enemy of Turkey...
...Expectation. The frequent emphasis on the phrase "capacity to pay" led to the general belief that a moratorium of five to ten years would be proposed with interest thereafter at 2% to 3% or thereabouts. The intention of both parties, however, seems to be to provide that Italy must pay "every cent of the principal" over a period of 60 or 70 years. This emphasis on the payment of principal is, of course, merely so much pious twaddle. Assuming that a ten-year moratorium is granted and that during that time the U. S. has to pay an average...