Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dearly loved Longfellow. Because of the regard with which they held each other as evidenced in affectionate letters and frequent visits Mr. Pickwick will approach the shrine with humble retrospect that here, upon one glorious occasion, Dickens dined with Longfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Bayard Taylor...
...There is a gargoyle representing an amorous duet in a roadster, there is another which shows a radio fan in the midst of his revelry. And so tomorrow, or whenever roadsters and radios are superseded by other curiosities, the archeologists will find new fields for delving and a future Taylor can expatiate on the involutions of "The Jazz Mind...
Breathless, he explained, as with trembling hands he unwrapped, that at last, at long last-crash! At his feet lay the arduously wrought statuette of Sculptor Taylor's old age, in fragments...
...fortnight ago, judges sat to scrutinize creations submitted for the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy. To them came one John Taylor, 74, London sculptor, carrying a small object swaddled thickly...
...take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate way. "The Taylor who was elected President," he says, for instance, "was Zachary Taylor." And then he goes on. "... while the Taylor that lived near us was H. N. Taylor, the feed man. No relation to the other Taylor...