Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diagnosed: "For 30 years Lodge was called 'the scholar in politics,' and doubtless got a good deal of quiet pleasure when he read that phrase in the newspapers or heard the toastmaster roll it out at banquets. Then came Wilson out of Princeton University to the Presidency, and people began to call him 'the scholar in politics.' Thus was a rivalry staged...
...Boston Herald remarks editorially that Mr. Coolidge would do well to step his conferences with Washington correspondents. It seems that some days ago the President took a stand on no less than ten public issues, but did not allow the correspondents to quote him except through that phrase: "A White House spokesman." The Herald fears that this form of anonymous government may soon degenerate into the President's sending up opinions like trial balloons, acknowledging these which are not punctured by the opposition, and disowning the rest...
...clock meridian (the audience again burst out laughing) of the fourth day of March, 1925, and it is my duty at this moment under the Constitution and laws of the United States to declare that the Senate of the 68th Congress is adjourned 'syne dee.'" (So the phrase sounded to the listeners...
Since the celebrated phrase was born, it has been used to illustrate the truth that, though men may come and men may go, the State goes on forever. Last week, in the German Republic was uttered the cry: "The President is dead. Long live the Republic...
...They exhibited together in Germany; a German critic bracketed them in the phrase "The Blue Four. *By Gainsborough (TIME, Jan. 26). †By Rembrandt...