Which President made popular the use of, and maybe even “coined,” the following words or phrases in parentheses?
1. “She will never be forgotten, because she was truly our (First Lady) for a half-century.”
2. “It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the (founding fathers) of the Republic.”
3. “……….. ………….. got away from the first tee gracefully on his second shot, taking advantage of the rule of (‘Mulligans’) to smite one far down the middle after hooking his first shot into the trees.”
4. “In reviewing the incidents of my (administration), I am unconscious of intentional error.”
5. “Many of them and their constituents are only (squatters) upon other people’s land, and they are afraid of being brought to account.”
6. “With rebellion thus (sugar-coated) they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the government.”
7. “That’s an (‘iffy’) question.”
8. “The (lunatic fringe) was fully in evidence, especially in the rooms devoted to the Cubists and the Futurists, or Near-Impressionists.”
9. “…………… imported a number of French phrases from his years living in Paris, including the use of (‘pedicure’) to describe the care of feet, toes, and toenails.”
10. “………. ……….. recalled the windmilltilting protagonist of Cervantes’s Don Quixote in describing a Venezuelan revolutionary who hoped to unite all of Spanish-America as a (‘Quixotic’) adventurer.”
Answers: John Adams-10, Theodore Roosevelt-8, Thomas Jefferson-9, Franklin Roosevelt-7, Warren Harding-2, George Washington-4, James Madison-5, Zachary Taylor-1, Dwight Eisenhower-3, Abraham Lincoln-6
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