Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest of them all was John the Orangeman. For half a century he was the most popular man in Cambridge. His title to immortality is a now classic phrase which he coined in an inspired moment and repeated ever afterward on suitable occasions: "Ter bell wid Yale!" This won for him the mascotship of all Harvard teams, and in that official capacity he traveled with them wherever the fair name of Harvard was to be upheld on the field of combat...
News in the steel industry has improved so rapidly of late that, in the Wall Street phrase, "all the good news is out." The unfilled orders of the U. S. Steel Corporation on Jan. 31 were 5,037,323 tons, a jump of 220,647 tons over forward business on Dec. 31, and the largest amount since February, 1924. The Corporation is working at about 95% capacity. Price advances have occurred in bars, shapes, plates, sheets, and wire products...
...days when it was a mighty nation, Turkey was known as the home of the "Terrible Turk"; but, as the Sultan began to wobble on his gilded throne Turkey became "the Sick Man of Europe"-a phrase coined by Nicolas I* of Russia...
...vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase: "Let us put Right on the throne and Wrong on the scaffold...
...vision and the command of musical technique without the full transformation into poetry that greater power over words themselves gives to a poem. He depends rather upon the delights of image and music than upon the more distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong in "Romantic Melancholy" by J. A. Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase...