Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Legion for the Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...
...most of the millions who read the Hearst press the last phrase probably meant nothing. To Miss Charlotte Haxall Noland it was, though Colyumist Brisbane is notoriously free with his superlatives, an accolade. The Best Girls' School in the Land, her creation, is only 15 years old. Its name is Foxcroft. Only 75 girls may go there at a time, tuition $2,500 each per annum. Foxcroft has an elite waiting list...
...much-abused phrase, "in the interests of science", which prompts that last highball and the extra pressure on the accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached...
...Connecticut, Garner of Texas. They came to perform a traditional ceremony- notification of the President that Congress was about to adjourn. Congressman Tilson truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn occasion could do to keep from outright laughter. Senator Jones, according to Congressman Tilson, wore his "best poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying...
...young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind...