REMEMBERED BY PHRASES

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 14

REMEMBERED BY PHRASES

HOW GREAT,NAMES ARE RECALLED;

It seems that Mr Harding is to bo counted among tliose who will be remembered by a single expression—the curious word "normalcy," which occurred in bis first Message, has .become specially connected with his name, and has been repeated oyer and over again in the obituary notices till the association is perfect; to think of the word 19 to think of the man. It was one of the tributes to Gladstone's, uniyeraailtyj says a "Manchetser Guardian" correspondent,.that no special phrase has been associated with nis name; he. touched life at so many points, he had such wealth of language that he never, as it stereotyped any phrase. Disraeli is always recalled by "'.Peace with honour." Lord Salisbury's name brings up in the minds of many Victorians memories of 0. certain "Hottentot'' speech. The Canning of the Mutiny lives in a phrase affixed to his name irir something less than reverence and vet glorious enough, "Clemency Canning." The other Canning of the Premiership conjures up the proud' claim to have called,in the New "world to redress the balance of the Old. Roosevelt gives us a choice of the "iSiinple life" and "The iig sijck." Bryan will live long in quotation through the Golden Cross oration, which really mad© him "perpetual candidate." _ Mr Asquith has more or less accepted "Wait and see," and he and his daughter have retorted successfully on those who have made political capital out of \ it. Campbeli-Bannerman. is one of. those with a.choicebetween "two., phrases, "Stop this fooling" and "Methods of barbarism." To his friends Harcqurt lives again in "Could anything be more delightful?'? as he boasted 'the;gardens of Malwocd., Randolph' Churchill is impaled on the "Ulster will fight" spike. His; son, c.oiner'of phrases, is uNlucky in the persistentjo of '-'' ."terminological inexactitude.'' "Welsh'hills" always recalls Mr Lloyd George's '"■ perorations. Perhaps Mr Baldwin onay come to.be remembered; by his 'claim to be and BernarcLShaw, for all his brilliance, by one common but unlovely' adjective. -