Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotable passages. They use it as an authority upon world peace, upon farm relief, upon harbor legislation. And William J. Bryan won a presidential nomination by a Biblical simile as astounding as it was inept. But the Bible was not written as a political tool, nor yet as a grammar. It was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has known. It should be studied in the full realization of that sincerity and with high appreciation of its timeless truths...
...smattering of Middle English grammar is taught the first half-year, when the Canterbury Tales are read with Professor F. N. Robinson, whose edition of Chaucer's works is being prepared by Houghton-Mifflin. This year Professor Lowes returns to the second half of the course after an absence from it of two years. While abroad he lectured on "the morning star of English poetry," and with his gift for classroom brilliance, so long known to members of English 72, he should make the reading of the "Troilus and Criseyde" thoroughly enjoyable. The minor poems also will come...
...might be two years before the whole sum is raised. Destitute, desperate, many teachers have accepted "script." an I. O. U. from the city, cashable for much less than its face value. First day of registration, high school enrolment was 18,000 greater than last year. A factor: more grammar school graduates were going to high school rather than hunt for jobs...
Gosse was fond of correcting his friends' grammar. Once he remonstrated with George Moore for his use of the phrase "more than you think for." Moore replied: "Shakespeare uses it and my parlormaid uses it, and an idiom which Shakespeare and my parlormaid use is good enough for me. . . . Your own writing, my dear Gosse, would be improved by idiom.'' Says Biographer Charteris: "Gosse . . . was deeply offended, and many explanations were necessary to avert the danger which menaced a friendship of forty years." An admirer of Walt Whitman, Gosse visited the U. S. to lecture, called...
...editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...