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In the times of national stress, he paid his debts in gold and asked the same of his creditors, regardless of the laws or customs of the rest of the United States. To him gold is still money and a national promise to pay is not. The general welfare is not a catchword with him. His affairs are individual. But he is not stingy for all this. It is rather a form of largeness, of tolerance.
The use of Slang proves at once the wealth and poverty of a language. It proves its wealth when it reflects a living, moving image. It proves its poverty when it is nothing more than the vain echo of a familiar catchword. At its best it is an ornament of speech; at its worst it is a labour-saving device.
This happens more often with elderly people; and it was on such an occasion that I heard a catchword fiend, a moderately young person, use her pet phrase as a red lantern to stop better, if more halting, talk. "Mr. Black was telling me to-day about Mr. White's being appointed to what do you call that office?" implored the dignified matron. "Just call it anything, Mrs.
"He was ranting away on Hatton green last night, and his catchword and watchword was liberty, liberty, and again liberty! He advised them to get a blue banner for their Club, and dedicate it to liberty. Then I stopped him." "What did you say?" "I told him to be quiet or I would make him. I told him we got beyond that word in King John's reign.
Above this group a great banner was suspended, reading: "The Signs of the Times," a catchword Mr. Hopkins had employed throughout the campaign. But the most astonishing thing was the appearance of the group of girls. They all wore plain white slips, upon which a variety of signs had been painted in prominent letters.
How his fogs, wet and clinging, seem to be the first real fogs that ever made misty a canvas! What hot July nights, with few large stars, has Monet not painted! His series of hayricks, cathedrals, the Thames are precious notations of contemporary life; they state facts in terms of exquisite artistic value; they resume an epoch. That title became a catchword usually employed in a derisive manner.
This persiflage had been going on for a couple of days and getting to be more and more elaborate and allusive, infecting the entire ward, so that the fact that the man was on the Danger List had become a kind of catchword amongst his fellows. Entered, in all innocence, the clergyman. "Boys!" he announced, "it says 'ere there's a shortage of timber!" Guffaws greeted this sally.
She was not Messalina yet, but in the stables there were jockeys whose sudden wealth surprised no one; in the arenas there were gladiators that fought, not for liberty, nor for death, but for the caresses of her eyes; in the side-scenes there were mimes who spoke of her; there were senators who boasted in their cups, and in the theatre Rome laughed colossally at the catchword of her amours.
"My Mother" is spoken by the world-hardened citizen with a gentler inflection, a reverential cadence, as if the inner man stood with uncovered head before a shrine. Mother-in-law! The words call a smile that is too often a sneer to lips in which dwells habitually the law of kindness, while lampoon, caricature, jest and song find in them theme and catchword for mockery and insult.
"That was a good initial effort, running down the opium pill mail-order enterprise." "It was simple enough as soon as I saw the catchword in the 'Wanted' line." "Anything is easy to a man who sees," returned the older man sententiously. "The open eye of the open mind that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised."
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