Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this great day of sophistication, none but a zany would say, "I know it's right because I read it in the newspapers!" The journalist's addiction to bloomers in spelling, grammar and fact have cost him not a little prestige. But radio is a new estate, and hence marvelous, and hence infallible. Moreover, its technicians are masters of such a mystery that it seems, to what Editor Arthur Brisbane calls the public's "tired brain or lack of brain," that they must surely be past masters at such child's play as correct speech...
...married a moving picture star and thereby enrolled himself among the dilettantes of Hollywood; the fact that he acted in sentimental cinemas; and above all the fact that he did not want to fight Negro Harry Wills have all weighed against him. Furthermore, Dempsey is a lowbrow. His grammar is gummy at the edges; he reads The Czar's Spy, by William Le Queux, The Spoilers, by Rex Beach, and makes no bones about his ignorance of philosophy. Pinochle is his favorite game, and he addresses his butler as "Babe." It is said that this butler has irritated...
...than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent. From the time that he left grammar school he devoted himself furiously to the studies that made him the greatest of U. S. landscape painters. In his studios in Montclair, N. J., in Washington Square, he worked stripped to the waist, with all windows closed, sweat pouring from his body. His eyes blazed under the shock...
...yellow, pushed it across the moon. "Stay there," he said, "until I make you white. . . ." He painted a few draped figures. Nudes, with the controlling necessity for form, were a tax upon his patience. They were also a tax upon his knowledge for he had never learned the grammar of art; he composed with genius, but his drawing would not parse. He was a master of tone. His pigment, always transparent, was thinned with a vehicle-Siccatif de Haarlem or Siccatif de Coutrey-if he was in haste for drying. He admired the Dutch. He feared the Spanish. "Dishwater...
...pedagogy. But lately the Eastman Kodak Co. investigated these experiments and found that they were being conducted most unscientifically, inefficiently. Accordingly, the Eastman Kodak Co. last week announced that it had arranged to develop a large series of films to be used in fourth, fifth and sixth grades of grammar schools, and in junior high schools, to supplement courses in geography, health and hygiene, civics, fine and practical arts, general science. The Kodak president, able, active George Eastman, has many times manifested keen interest in educational matters, chiefly through his gifts to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, Feb. 1). That...