Word: gemmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type, carefully supervised so that "each house, however simple, shall be an artistic gem." Though great estates were being planned-golf clubs, yacht club, huge hotel, casinos-particular attention was being paid to modest private establishments. The public was invited to buy lots as low as $4,000. But "background counts as much as money . . . for society, the came society that decreed the rise...
...minute their superiority of training. Put a student in the library with a keen interest in some subject on which he expects to prepare a little masterpiece; give him references on which to work, and encourage his eclectic faculty; expect him not only to produce a literary gem, but to glory in his work...
...attempted illustrations "krem of whet" and "ye krem" would giv any student of fonology a spasm. I never saw em used for the sound in seem. It is always as in gem,-hem. To skolars c is merely the round form of k and some day wil be displaced by k; but we leav cream as no one mispronounces it. "-But we spel leag so foreners and children won't pronouns it in 2 sylables like ague. They call head heed, like bead, but our hed is clearer as is our shorter and better hav; but have will...
...hast thou, then destroyed this precious gem...
...sportive pomposity amuses Mr. Boyd enormously. Most of the time it amuses the reader. His greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...