Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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. . . It's awfully awkward for the Queen
Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech...
"I plead for the hundreds of little children whose nervous constitutions predispose them to stuttering and who need only some stimulus to 'set them off,' " wrote Dr. Greene. "A popular song, making use of repetitive sounds, which children love, is just the stimulus. . . ."
At week's end Dr. Greene had encouraging answers from 20 broadcasters, was already girding for another scrap-against double talk (idioglossia).* Says he: "If a comedian has to try to put his stuff over by making a fool of our good English, then let him not stay in...
Jonah Barrington, whimsical, curly-laired young radio columnist of the London Daily Express, gave him the name early in the war. Barrington's resourceful notion was that, by daily and well-aimed ridicule, this No. 1 Nazi radio propagandist might be turned into: 1) high comedy, 2) good copy...