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When Mr. A. does condescend to quote sentences which exist, he substitutes three dots for crucial grammatical features. He is thus able to turn English into Incoherence. His careless pen cannot even copy titles of articles correctly. By dropping an 's' from "Pigs" Mr. A. transforms the author's scholarly announcement of her subject into name-calling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STINGER STUNG | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

Glad fo see FIME Magazine is regressing fo fhe old use of fhe "F" in fheir arficles. Call special affenfion to "Cliff" Hofel June [16]. For modernists, however, couldn't we condescend to call a spayde a spade, a Cliff a Clift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...also hope that Mr. Barber will condescend to take up another job of much-raking which, although not as serious as that which has befallen the HYRC, surely rates the attention of our B. M. O. C. friend--and that is the alleged selling of Yardling dance tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRUSADE | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...results of this unofficial race, no write-in ballots will be counted. We believe that the votes should be accredited, however, since we think Oliver A. Yabook would prove an exemplary Jubilee Chairman. And, in the event that Lamont Dupont should lose, we are hoping that he will condescend to run for the HYRC presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Political Scene | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

Even worse, Holden makes crude physical advances to a sensitive, high-principled Red Cross girl (Deborah Kerr) who will only condescend to talk to him when he promises to tell her about the death of her husband on Guadalcanal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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