Word: comma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerry Nason, Boston Globe: "Yale has won three football games this season. This leads to the suspicion that the place is lousy with athletic scholarships. Since Harvard isn't lousy (no comma here, please) with athletic scholarships, my vote is the Eli by the margin of one scholarship...
...reader . . . may be perplexed and puzzled at my use of the comma: it is a new, special and poetic use to which I have put it. The commas appear in the poems functionally, and thus not for eccentricity; and they are there also poetically, that is to say, not in their prose function. These poems were conceived with commas, as 'comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement...
There were no recorded conversations of other luminaries, but none seemed anxious to talk. Said a secretary for Supreme Court Justice S. Samuel DiFalco: "Quote -no comment-unquote." Said Special Sessions Judge Joseph Loscalzo: "No comment, comma, no comment." Blandest of all was Borough President Rogers. He had developed a real enthusiasm for the Salvation Army. He added: "I am not interested in or have any comment to make on the personalities involved...
...Professor Louis Hartz to join the discussion. Unfortunately Hartz did not join the discussion very much, chiefly because he was more polite than most of the undergraduates present. He therefore did not stick his two bits in while whoever was speaking took a second off to inhale after a comma, which is what everybody else did whenever Hartz was speaking...
...weeks were up, the four met on the Fontainebleau estate of the Trib's European Edition Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr. to drink applejack and compare notes. They wrote three articles each, but nobody's drafts pleased anybody else. So they sat down and rewrote the series together, comma by comma; sometimes one sentence went through five versions. Joe Barnes ran the articles as cabled...