Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan...
...recent conference of British and American professors of English Dr. Heary Van Dyke again brought up the old question of the so-called "American language". As usual be denounces the idea. He begins his statement with the proposition that "the native language of these United States is English", and goes on to show that most Americans are causing the language to degenerate rapidly by their solvenly pronunciation. But, in his second sentence, he states that "Our forefathers ... brought it (the English language) with them to this new land in pretty good condition...
...separate American dialect would be absurd, and that language deteriorates from careless use. But when they very exponent of perfect English speech himself employs the Americanism "pretty-good" in almost his first words, it is rather hard to see how Americanisms can be escaped. For although Dr. Van Dyke may pronounce his words perfectly, he unconsciously used the language of the people with whom he comes in contact. As he says, "English was kept alive and propagated as the hereditary language of this country by vocal...
...signed by Secretaries Hoover and Davis, and by 40 other distinguished Americans of various denominations, who include: Bishops Lawrence, Manning and McConnell, President Angell of Yale and President Burton of Chicago, Dr. William J. Mayo, Frank O. Lowden, Admiral Sims, Julius Kruttschmitt, Frank A. Vanderlip, Victor Lawson, Henry Van Dyke, Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...Henry van Dyke: "Said 1 of Mr. Edison's tribute to the movies: ' If you will pardon me for using such an expression, I'll say it's all poppycock...