Word: frates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...
...bible to hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter trains from swank Lake Forest, and on the dirty "El" cars taking workers to the stockyards. (The Colonel once banned foreign titles from his pages, still insists on simplified spelling, i.e., "frate" for freight...
Said the Colonel: "Facsimile may prove too costly. The recorders cost more than $400 now and the paper used for the printing is expensive. We don't know who will use it. Perhaps frate* ships, with their small crews, would find it useful. The men could pass the copy around. It may be that it would be of service in fishing camps [and to] farmers...