Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joel Chandler Harris Jr. undoubtedly knows the language of Southern Negroes, but before his suggested explanation of "spit an' image" be accepted (TIME, Oct. 11), let your readers consider a passage in a 17th Century play. In 1694, Edward Ravenscroft's Canterbury Guests was given its first performance. Scene 2 of Act III is given over to a trumped-up charge against Sir Barnaby Buffler that he is the father of children by two women of unsavory reputation. One of them, Dazie, accuses him as follows...
...Joel Chandler Harris Jr. (TIME, Oct. 11, p. 6) will consult some standard works on the English language he will find information which will assist him in "keeping the records straight" concerning "spit an' image" (see my letter, TIME, Sept...
Turning to America, we find in Dialect Notes (Publications of the American Dialect Society), Vol. 1, Pt. 5, p. 232: "the ve'y spit an' image o' him," reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission...
...living body, the liver and kidneys, all medical scientists come to attention. As blood flows through these organs, it leaves waste products behind to be disposed of through bladder and bowels. Last week Dean MacNider, a sandy-haired man of medium height and 56 years, delivered the second Chandler memorial lecture at Manhattan's Columbia University, proclaimed that, according to what he has seen in livers and kidneys, disease seems to be a beneficial burden on mankind...
...marriage and divorce, which at present provides that only the innocent party in a divorce for adultery may be remarried in the church. The commission would allow bishops, a year after a divorce, to approve remarriage where it seems justifiable. However, a minority report was offered by Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. One of the Church's outstanding liberals, who left the deanship of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine after a tiff with Bishop Manning. Dr. Robbins stands with conservatives in this case, believing that any change would weaken...