Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that Composer Taylor had been commissioned to create another opera, for the opening, two years hence, of the Metropolitan's new auditorium. He said: "So far as opera is concerned I feel I have just about graduated from grammar school...
...liked girls, but as friendly and intellectual companions. Said his sister: "He used to correct their grammar when they conversed, and gravely lecture them upon the folly of wearing stays. . . . No village belle ever liked to own that she laced tightly, or that she wore a 'board,' as it was a tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief...
...education were not limited to Harvard University nor to higher education in general, important as those services were. His influence was also great in the field of secondary education, and in elementary education as well. The reforms which he advocated, many of which have permanently enriched education from the grammar school to the university, are a monument to his penetrating insight and his practical wisdom...
...said that higher education has little benefit for the practical business man. Yet here is a railroad coming to not one but several universities with the object of clearing up a little matter of grammar: the fact that the universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable...
...truth must appear, by a candidate, vised by a segued under editor and allowed to insult, as well the intelligence and taste of Harvard, as well the intelligence and taste of Harvard, as that of Yale. The Daily News did not hesitate to fly, even at the expense of grammar, in the face of the CRIMSON with a violent editorial closing with a prayer of thanksgiving that the writer was not as one must believe, either a candidates for the Crimson, a fatigued under editor, or forgiving and investigating soul...