Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose you could find that happy phrase which would put across your history paper in "The Rise of the Republic of the United States", by Richard Frothingham? The book may be found in this shop at $1.20. The original price...
...portray the President as a lawgiver and executive of the blood and stature of Lincoln, public opinion is at once skeptical and on the defense. When, on the other hand, The New York World, or Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate, impale him upon a phrase like "the creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love of sensational and derogatory slander is kindled into a livid and cynical flame...
...parody. That, of course, makes no difference in the aim of its humor. Similarly, the humor itself is not the extent of its transgressions. The advertising, too, reeks with the malicious and depraved spirit of the Lampoon Board. From the advertisement of the Prudential Insurance Company, the obnoxious phrase "The trouble with the Fifth Chapter of Genesis" is held up as "other proof that the asses who bray throughout its pages are particularly concerned in ridiculing what other men respect...
...Vocational guidance" is a phrase frequently heard nowadays. The colleges are aware that, besides mere "culture", it is their duty to offer the student a chance of considering various careers and choosing for himself before he is turned out to try them by hard experience. Education, it has often been said, is the ability to make the right choice. As yet, the University has made no definite move toward providing such guidance, though various proposals have been heard, and occasional speakers, at the Union and elsewhere, from time to time give useful hints and point out the prospects in certain...
...present instance. An accidentally misplaced comma caused weeks of argument on Article X of the Versailles treaty. There is even less difficulty in stirring up trouble intentionally. Headlines can always be written to read two ways, a report can be garbled, and emphasis can be put on the wrong phrase. The result,--the product of exaggeration and misrepresentation.--will furnish sporting columns with gossip for a fortnight, but it is unlikely to accomplish anything else. The cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised too often. The relations between Harvard. Princeton, and Yale are too firmly established to lead...