Word: grammarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Grammarian. One central paradox of Christianity has always been the nature of Christ. Was He God or man or somewhere in a nebulous in-between? Theologian Baillie's orthodox answer includes both the "historial Jesus" and the "Christ of faith...
...There is only one God, and in the Christian sense there could not conceivably be more . . . Peter Damiani, the medieval divine, commenting on the words uttered by the serpent in Eden ('Ye shall be as gods'), remarked that the Devil was the first grammarian when he taught men to give a plural to the word 'God.' It should have neither a plural nor the indefinite article. It is a proper name...
...Grammarian Charles Henshaw Ward, who taught at the University of California in the '20s, coined the word from the phrase: thinking out the opinion that pleases one and believing...
...Grand Jury was concerned, "The Hopkins Letter" was now "The Briggs Letter." Fat-faced little George N. Briggs, grammarian to Secretary Harold L. Ickes, was indicted for forgery, for using the mails to defraud and for obtaining money under false pretenses...
...death of such a grammarian as Browning wrote of was reported last week from London (where the news had been picked up from Denmark's Nazi-controlled Kalundborg radio). On April 30 death had come to 82-year-old Jens Otto Harry Jespersen after an operation in Roskilde's hospital. In this handsome Danish giant of scholarship, English grammar lost its greatest living historian, Europe an outstanding humanist...