Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legendary as his dress and habits is Bill McGovern's learning. He wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh from a survey of the South American Chaco affair, went to lunch in Evanston's University Club, was soon questioning Bill McGovern for further in formation. Bill McGovern is now busy teaching Chinese to his four-year-old son. A friend gave him a bottle of Napoleon brandy...
Prim Music-mentor Boulanger writes no music herself. Teaching other musicians to write is her fulltime job. In her earlier years she taught the ABC's of composition, pushed adolescent hopefuls through courses in elementary harmony and counterpoint, the grammar and syntax of music. But nowadays she ir besieged by full-fledged composers who have outgrown their schoolbooks, need expert advice on polishing off finished compositions...
...Latin Grammar...
...large bouquet on your excellent interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright. The job was done in his grammar, as he would put it, but what of that part about my being the "rich Mr. Johnson...
Better-Speech pupils get 15 pamphlets providing the equivalent of eighth-grade instruction in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary. They are told that it is not so elegant to say "we couldn't get along without the typewriter" as "the typewriter is an indispensable office appliance...