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...number of times Senator Bricker has invoked the Constitution as the sacred vessel of all that is praise-worthy in America is past counting. His proposed amendment, thus, seems somewhat anamalous. Despite our feeling that cant has dominated his incantations, it is still surprising that so ardent a defender of the Constitution should want to alter that document as drastically as he does...
...veryfey the statement." That sort of thing, says Barzun in the Atlantic Monthly, may be bad writing, but it is nevertheless harmless. The real danger to language "does not come from such trifles. It comes rather from the college-bred millions who . . . circulate the prevailing mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax that passes for prose." Barzun calls this "the infinite duplication of dufferism...
Douglas Auchincloss, Louis Banks, Bruce Barton, Jr., Gilbert Cant, Edwin Copp3, Alexander Eliot, Frank Gibney, Max Gissen, Frederick Gruin, Roger S. Hewlett, James C. Keogh, Louis Kronenberger, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Robert Manning, William Miller. Paul O'Neill, Carl Solberg, Walter Stockly...
...Method of Three." For the working man, life became an Orwellian nightmare of cant and slogans, pressures and penalties. He went to a job picked for him by the government. At day's end he shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more...
Operator 25 is many people with many functions-and, obviously, many facets of ingenuity. Basically, Western Union uses Operator 25 as a commercial service. If, for instance, you want to find out the name of the local distributor of the Cant-Chu-U dog muzzle, Operator 25 can tell you. In many cities, Operator 25 is also the person to call back when you are not at home to receive a wire. In that capacity, Operator 25-or her counterpart-has become a familiar voice to many TIME correspondents...