Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please give us plenty of news about this fellow Thompson. He's a WOW! Can't you somehow get him and Epstein together in a grammar writing contest...
...good English. But it would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke or his peer at grammar could write the New York Times another letter pointing out that the Coolidge renomination question is now definitely settled in the negative, since "I will not" expresses determination whereas "I shall not" would have been simple prediction...
Another charge made on behalf of Seņor Blasco Ibaņez was that "with the exception of a few petty professors from the grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...
...Fascist-controlled press of Rome displayed last week a little story, perfect as a gem, concerning small Bruno Mussolini, 9, younger son* of II Duce. Bruno's schoolteacher, it seemed, was recently examining him in grammar and desired to elicit the information that, in Italian, a verb may take the imperative mood in the second or third person but not in the first. "Now Bruno," said the examiner, "tell me in what person one cannot command...
Bruno, obviously puzzled and apparently ignorant upon this point of grammar, showed himself the smart son of a smart sire by replying: "There are two persons one cannot command, the King and my father...