Word: fowlerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure Mr. Pound would like nothing better than to receive a copy of "Modern English Usage.") If the not-so erudite...
...Walter Kaiser '54, are too virtuosic to have much value as criticism, though I'm sure that all three of the reviewers are indeed talented and widely-read. Mr. Kaiser is a writer of some force and his criticism appears to be sound but he needs a dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage"; I do not challenge his right to use an obscure word like "susurrus" (though he will be losing readers by doing so) but I do ask that he not use it in a phrase like "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which makes a mockery...
DARTMOUTH: Attack: Mason, Fowler, and Caldwell; Midfield: R. Fiertz, Lyon, and Geigerich; Defense: Fenton, Bloomer, and Fauver; Goal: A. Fiertz...
Only a small slice of the world was listening the day a big-boned girl named Clara Anne Fowler stepped up to sing on Tulsa's KTUL. The program was a hillbilly affair sponsored by the Page Milk Co. Its sales-conscious title: "Meet Patti Page...
...Rush. Back in Oklahoma, mother & father Fowler still have their fingers crossed about their tenth child's sudden national fame. So has Patti: "Sometimes when people stare at me, I can't believe it's true." In her KTUL days, she also sang a bit in a Tulsa nightclub. But she regarded her singing jobs as merely an earning spell between high school and marriage. She began to build as a singer when a fast-moving, pressagent-manager type named Jack Rael took her over. He signed her as a songbird with Jimmy Joy's band...