William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

Language expert William Safire in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express a " little bit of arcana ".

The term retronym was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times.

* William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History ( 2004 ) ISBN 978-0-393-05931-1.

Author and political commentator William Safire, in his political dictionary, traced the term " trickle-down economics " ( common in the Reagan era ) to Bryan's statement that some believe that government should legislate for the wealthy, and allow prosperity to " leak through " on those below.

He attacked his adversaries with relish, hurling unusual, often alliterative epithets — some of which were coined by White House speechwriters William Safire and Pat Buchanan — including " pusillanimous pussyfooters ", " nattering nabobs of negativism " ( written by Safire ), and " hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ".

* Safire, William.

The application of the term to specifically nuclear and radiological weapons is traced by William Safire to the Russian phrase " Оружие массового поражения " – oruzhiye massovogo porazheniya ( weapons of mass destruction ).

Even several public opponents of " non-sexist language ", such as William Safire, were finally convinced that Ms. had earned a place in English by the case of US Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro.

In a column on Mitchell's death William Safire wrote, " His friend Richard Moore, in a eulogy, noted that near Mitchell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery was the headstone of Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, a Medal of Honor recipient, who used to call Mitchell yearly to thank him for saving his life.

The development was originally to be named " Sunnydale ", but William Safire, a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his mind.

" 07 May 2010 .< http :// www. worthpoint. com / blog-entry / buying-hype-trophy-antiques-collectibles >.</ ref > William Safire claimed that the term trophy wife was coined by Julie Connelly, a senior editor of Fortune magazine, in a cover story in the issue of Aug. 28, 1989 and immediately entered common usage.

Writing in 2005, the New York Times language columnist William Safire attributed the term ( in its modern usage ) to conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who wrote on June 1, 2003: I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.

On November 14, 2002, The New York Times published a column by William Safire in which he claimed " has been given a $ 200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.

However, a wide perception that Hutton had not been punished enough ( for example, the New York Times William Safire claimed that the $ 2. 75 million fine amounted to " putting a parking ticket on the Brink's getaway car "), led several customers to pull their accounts with Hutton, and many of the firm's star performers fled to other firms.

In his review of Garner's Modern American Usage, David Foster Wallace referred to the " Colonel Blimp's rage " of Prescriptivist journalists like William Safire.

* 1978: William Safire, New York Times, " for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.

The idea that voters are susceptible to such effects is old, stemming at least from 1884 ; William Safire reported that the term was first used in a political cartoon in the magazine Puck in that year.

At some point in the past, a sign on the bridge informed travelers, " In event of attack, drive off bridge ", New York Times columnist William Safire wrote in 2008.

William Safire of the New York Times said " His Way ... turns out to be the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.

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He was fond of poetry, with his favourite poet being John Keats, although his favourite poems were William Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " and Robert Browning's " A Grammarian's Funeral ".

The film's title is taken from a line of William Wordsworth's poem " Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood ":

* William Wordsworth-Poems in Two Volumes, including Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

* William Congreve-A Pindarique Ode.

Keate was followed by other romantic poets including William Sotheby ( Ode, Netley Abbey, Midnight, 1790 ).

" William Bascom, the foremost academic authority on Ifa up until the time of his death, also stated that " only men can become babalawo " and that he never encountered a single female Ifa priest acting as a diviner during any of his extensive field studies in the cities of Ife, Igana, Meko, Oyo, Ilesa, Abeokuta, Osogbo, Sagamu, Ilara, Ondo, Ijebu Ode or Ekiti in Yorubaland in 1937-38, 1950 – 51, in 1960 and 1965, nor did any of his informants mention such a thing.

Tighe's work was appreciated by William Wordsworth and also an early influence on John Keats, whose short Ode to Psyche appeared in 1820.

The book's title is taken from William Wordsworth's poem " Ode: Intimations of Immortality ": " Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

He was co-author, with George Colman, of Ode to Obscurity and Ode to Oblivion, both published in the early 1760s, and both satires on the works of the poets William Mason and Thomas Gray.

Hassall's contributions included: Upon Westminster Bridge, Daffodils, and Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth ; and Death Be Not Proud by John Donne.

" Hymn to Intellectual Beauty " is an 84-line ode that was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel of sensibility Julie, or the New Heloise and William Wordsworth's " Ode: Intimations of Immortality ".

English poet, William Wordsworth, and his work, " Ode: Intimations of Immortality ", was the inspiration for the naming of the event.

* Sir William Jones's Ode and the 1738 preface to Milton's Areopagitica

He also produced translations, or paraphrases, of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare ( 1952 ) and Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller.

The first printing Bache was given to do was " An Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus ," a poem by linguistic scholar William Jones decrying England ’ s corruption and the misuse of monarchical power.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

Ensign Vesole decided that he would not tarry until he heard the whispering of the bombs, and when night began to fall, he put Seaman 2/c Donald L. Norton and Seaman 1/c William A. Rochford on the guns and told them to start shooting the moment they saw an enemy silhouette.

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.

Mrs. William H. Merner, of Drexel Park, entertained at a luncheon at her home on Wednesday.

Councilman William D. Schaefer ( D., Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month.

Mr. Willis, eager to have him allied with the family, wanted advice beyond the confines of his field, and William set out on a serious study of the situation, including trips to Wisconsin and Washington.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

William Tecumseh Sherman talked to Lincoln during inauguration week and was " sadly disappointed " at his failure to realize that " the country was sleeping on a volcano " and that the South was preparing for war.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.