Word: fowlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young (27) Briton Thomas Hinde. Two others, slickly competent, successful and considerably overrated by reviewers, were John Phillins...
Other breaststrokers are John Fowler, Harold Kuller, and Armie Marlin. Free-stylers on the team include Roger Clifton, Chouteau Dyer, Harry Eldrige, John Lind, Stuart Ogden, Steve Singer, Glen Sisler, Frank Weller, and Dave Whitman, while Vince Aoki, Jerry Moulton, and Paul Santmire make up the backstroke contingent. The four freshmen divers are Frank Eaton, Joe Ellis, John Jeppson, and Arthur Martin...
Better Be Good. It turns out music, medical books, Bibles, hymnals, Britain's Dictionary of National Biography, Fowler's Modern English Usage, children's stories, books on Geodesy and Eigen junction Expansions, and such bestsellers as Toynbee's Study of History and Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon...
Anent Lexicographer Fowler's disapproval of the Long Variant [Oct. 12]: if we should avoid using "wastage" for "waste," how come Fowler's rather unique use of "usage" for "use"? BEN F. MEYER...
...Riverdale, N.J.; Jerry W. Brougher of the University of Texas and Calvert, Texas; Charles J. Christenson of Cornell and Chicago; Jerome H. Clark, of Amherst and Darien, Conn.; Arthur P. Contas '52 of Chestnut Hill; William J. Dickson, of the University of Arkansas and Rogers, Ark.; James A. Fowler, of Oxford and Cambridge, and Hempstead Heights, England...