Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Open covenants, openly arrived at" is an obsolete phrase in present European politics. The first meeting of the League of Nations, from which so many good tidings were to be spread around the world, has relegated that principle to the junk-heap of "new world idealism." The Council of the League, now under the control of the old school diplomats, is to conduct its meetings in secret, and withholds its minutes from the contaminating gaze of the public eye. One member only--Lord Robert Cecil--has protested, but to no avail...
...From the Side-Lines" is one of the most interesting athletic articles that has appeared in Cambridge for many a day. It is a pity that such excellent material should be marred by a somewhat monotonous style. Also, one is almost provoked to laughter by the recurrence of the phrase "to this day." But anything can be forgiven the man who has the imagination and the ability to devise a new and fresh "foot-ball story...
...Because Senator Harding has stated that he intends, if elected, to make a separate peace with Germany, a "peace without victory" in the full sense of that unfortunate phrase...
...league is not the paramount issue of the day. He knows that the possibility of war is what makes a league--some kind of a league--necessary but does the question ever rise in his mind as to what causes war? Does anybody with sense suppose that the phrase "a war to end war" was anything but mob psychology practically applied? Is "democracy" as "safe" in the world today, with nations drunk with militarism and bloated in their national self-aggrandizement, as it was before the war? My friends there are certain economic and social conditions that maintain this monstrous...
...much for new arguments as for an accurate definition of existing issues and their relative importance is the address notable. Mr. Hoover does an especial service in placing the league problem--important as it is--in its true perspective to the broader issue of the campaign. In his telling phrase...