Word: idiom
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...Gibson "Death in the House" gives with observant pathos a boy's emotions when his brother is dangerously ill with typhoid. Mr. Symonds contributes a pleasant piece of domestic shock in a brief reminiscence of a disturbing grandfather. Mr. Rowley begins a nervous tale of urban frustration in the idiom of Josephine Herbst...
...best cavalry leader in either camp, though they had never met (TIME, June 22, 1931). To rescue him from the half-oblivion in which he lurks as a semiliterate, half-savage raider, Author Gordon pens many a panegyric page, sometimes lets her feminine enthusiasm get the better of military idiom, as when she speaks of Forrest's horse as being "shot out from under...
...need hardly hear of Professor Kittredge's one-volume Shakespeare to be assured that it is a complete and a scholarly work. The publishers have worked with the editor, patiently and skillfully, to reproduce in precise the tremendous knowledge of text, idiom, and literary values which Professor Kittredge owns...
Most notable quality about the girl characters in Spring Dance is their idiom, said to be peculiar to Smith's Dawes House. To be "smit" is to be in love. A "thicket" is what was formerly known as a necking party. "Plent" signifies pleasant. Critics agreed that Spring Dance is "plent" rather than plausible...
Brilliantly as Sandburg has captured the flavor of unrecorded wisecracks, most readers will find The People, Yes growing diffuse as the poet approaches his climax and speaks in his own idiom instead of that of his hero. He repeats with love Abe Lincoln's salty observations on the poor, sees Lincoln as one of the people elevated to power who never forgot his origins. He repeats with scorn Hamilton's "Your people, sir, is a great beast." Brooding on unemployment, hard times, strikes, revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked...