Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least one of your readers it seemed unbelievable except for the inherent probability contained in the unrestrained language of the author. I think it safe to say that if the Taft letter had been generally known to the conservative, law-abiding, progressive people of the country before his appointment as Chief Justice of the United States he would not now hold that important office...
...Carroll while at Oxford, and contains the first verse of his poem the "jabberwocky" which was not published until 25 years later. There is a translation of the words in the first verse showing how they were formed. As this has never been published, and explains one of the author's most famous poems, its value cannot be over estimated...
...following review of the current number of the Advocate was written especially for the Crimson by Bernard De Voto '18, author of "The House of the Sun goes Down" and other novels...
...REASON-Philip Gibbs*-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). As usual, Author Gibbs is out to prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with...
...word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only spoonerism, that it was a slip of his tongue...