Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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There is a fine quality of phrase in James E. Agate's "Responsibility" (Doran), as well as a thoughtful turning over of ideas, a delight in ideas for their own sakes...
...Evening up the decision" is a phrase used in baseball when the umpire makes a bad judgment on a certain play, and, shortly afterward, realizing his error, gives an equally bad decision on a close play for the opposing team. A week or so ago President Eliot saw fit to criticize the United States Military Academy at West Point, and this week feeling perhaps that he should have begun at home accuses the Harvard students of being "Woozy." The CRIMSON and the University have always had the utmost respect for President Eliot, who, by his actions and words has ever...
...time it seemed that humanity would come into its own and that civilization would clean up this dark corner of Europe. But the selfish interests that prevailed in the Congress of Berlin, left the Turk unrestrained in his bloody work. Now, more than forty years later, the phrase "Armenian massacre" has become so trite that we hardly give it a passing thought...
...with superior English officers for unexplained reasons. As a result he was removed and punished. In November, 1914, he sailed for Buenos Ayres, where he is said to have conferred with Count Karl of Luxembourg, the German minister to Argentine, who is noteworthy as the man who originated the phrase "spurlos versenkt." Two years later he was accused by the Rome correspondent of the London Times of trying to engineer a separate peace among the Germanophiles of the Vatican and the Italian aristocracy. Since that time he has been in France and the subject of much uncomplimentary discussion...
...Geer heads a new institution which has already proved its value to the Freshmen, and has given the University a by-product in making the phrase "athletics for all" nearer true than ever before...