Word: grammar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What are the sources, motives or unconscious origins of Anti-Americanism? First I would put British influences . . . [like] The New Statesman. [It is] the British Bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar school intellectual, the new technical school boys whose knowing twang you hear on every bus, every manic-depressive Orwellite, fissurated Koestlerite, prehistoric Fabian, antique Keir Hardyite, flaming anti-Roman Catholic, like . . . the editor himself, Mr. Kingsley Martin, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin...
...woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist who kept painstakingly correcting his own grammar...
...book was eventually brought out by Reilly & Lee, the Chicago house that has issued all 22 of his subsequent books. A Heap o' Livin' sold more than half a million copies, and so deeply moved certain members of a school board that they named a Detroit grammar school after Guest. Because he figures that "if something happens to me, it must happen to other people," Guest tries to write his verses out of his own experience. But the strain of turning out a poem a day for half a century is beginning to tell. Says Guest warmly...
...added, however, that present population growths will increase the number of children of school age from 271/2 million to 371/2 million in twelve years. Even now, grammar school teachers are badly needed...
Almost the first student Staley had was a young ward worker named James Michael Curley, later famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...