Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Woman's Party is one of the farthest-going of all women's movements. It wants more than woman suffrage. It wants absolutely equal rights for women in all fields-and that phrase precludes such measures as restrictions of hours of labor for women...
...even sports; they are music-lovers who give small tips, cold-eyed elegants in evening dress, or critics that ponder, as they read the meter, such terms as "a good performance, well sung," "gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder...
...first time Sophomores are eligible to compete. This year we have three candidates instead of three vacancies, as we did last year, for each part. This will mean a lot of work for everybody. It will be a 'survival of the fittest' in the most literal sense of the phrase...
...Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay published a book entitled The Golden Whales of California and Other Poems. Thereafter, many sport writers adopted Poet Lindsay's picturesque phrase, applying it to football teams of California University as a cognomen thought to be appropriate in view of the prowess of those teams. TIME thanks Subscriber Mott for recalling the official epithet...
...President of Harvard but the President of Dartmouth who lately declared that chief among the problems of university administration is the "emotional alumnus." The phrase flashed memories of ragtime hands and acrobatic cheer leaders, of snake dancers, of comic opera commencement costumes, of hand-organs and monkeys and goats. But more than such things, it now appears, proceed from the emotional graduate. In his intellectuals also there is ragtime and motley...