Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems solid foundation for Mr. Marcosson's contention that the Government has pursued a policy of "masterly inactivity," expressed, for one thing, in conspicuous failure to solve the unemployment problem−there are still 1,000,000 men out of work. ... A unique situation summed up in the phrase, Labor without labor...
...series of enchanting essays wherein remembered places served the author as they served the artist, Turner; that is, as points of departure for his fancy. Even the anticipation of a voyage, or the reading of a map, is enough to start the author "ringing the bell" (to use his phrase) "so to speak, at the front door of heaven." While searching for the sunset on the other side oi a snowy mountain, or for beauty in Liverpool, the author captures a special brand of happiness, which, he says, "can only be caught by hunting for something else...
...face of such criticism (well-nigh unanimous), Current Opinion ignorantly entitled its reproduction: "The Most Human Royal Portrait Within Living Memory" (a phrase quoted from the critic of the Illustrated London News...
...anthropology of the tale, as given in the press, involves the use of the popular phrase "Nordic stock," as well as the blessed words "Paleolithic or cro-Magnon type" and "neolithic Mongolian." But the visitors will have to submit their jaws to the calipers of local science before these adjectives can be sorted...
John Armstrong Chaloner, ne Chanler, modern Maecenas, coiner of the famed phrase "Who's looney now?"* has figured more or less steadily in the public press for the past six years. Adjudged insane some 20 years ago, he spent some time in enforced residence at Bloomingdale Asylum (New York State), whence he escaped finally to Virginia, his home. A piquant touch was added by the fact that while he was legally sane in the State of Virginia, he was legally insane in the State of New York, where, undaunted, he was carrying on libel suits against various Manhattan newspapers...