Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduced to the Barrie Grammar School and there threw a cricket ball 115 yards-"a throw never beaten, at least by an amateur...
...special devil by the name of Tittivillus frequented the monasteries of the Middle Ages. It was his task to gather in a bag the dropped syllables and mumbled words and omitted words and bad grammar of the brethren, as they took part in the service, and deliver them to the father of evil. On one occasion, he told a holy abbot that he brought his master each day a thousand bags full of 'failings and of negligences and of syllables and words' that were done or undone in the abbot's order in the course of their...
...downfall of Patrick Kelly, 10-year-old orphan from New Haven, Conn., was tragic. Patrick had arrived in Washington with 21 textbooks on grammar and spelling, including a "dictionary" by Patrick Kelly, containing over 4,000 words hard to spell. Somehow he had overlooked "blackguard," and when the word-giver pronounced it, "blaggard," Patrick said, "Huh ?", and then spelled it just the way it sounded. Every one liked Patrick...
...McGowan also read a Supreme Court decision to the effect that Congress was presumed to know the rules of grammar. This inspired Chairman Sinnott to remark (not for the record) : "We ought to give this Judge a raise in salary...
...treatise on Latin Grammar. "Accedence Commene't," dated 1669, is the second item, a manual recalling Milton's school-mastering days and his interests in education...