Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary value of the almanac has been flayed unfairly by meticulous and stodgy critics. They laugh harshly at its bad grammar and with academic glee point out the weaknesses of phrasing. Yet, considering the value of the almanac for of the colonists, one must deafen himself to the cries of the literary know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds...
...your apple butter amateurs, their correspondence, and their butter perpetuation societies, beg to advise that these fellows are 19 years late getting started. Back in 1918 in St. Joseph, Mo., then and now, apple butter capital of America, a group of Jackson Grammar School boys formed an organization known as the Apple Butter Club, membership being confined exclusively to boys and girls who liked apple butter and who helped their mothers make it. Meetings were held twice monthly and refreshments consisted of apple butter, crackers and apples. Activities consisted of refreshments mostly and voting in new members whose initiation...
...Bible was not written as a political tool, nor as a history or a grammar for those yet unborn, even as we ourselves, to puzzle over. Nay, it was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has ever known. I should be studied as such, with realizations of that sincerity and with appreciation of those timeless truths...
...some 10,000 Roman Catholic schools and colleges in the U. S., 89,000 priests, brothers and nuns teach about 2,500,000 grammar school, highschool, college and seminary students. Last week as Catholic schools were opening for the year, many a Catholic teacher was scandalized to hear orthodox religious education roundly and rudely excoriated, flayed not by some Protestant iconoclast but by a Jesuit of good repute...
...best country newspaper correspondent of the year. The winner, who gets $200 and a trip to New York and Washington, was Finlay ("Fin") Petrie, 53, reporter for the Kemmerer, Wyo. Gazette in the woolgathering town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general store gave him the job of clerk. It seemed natural that Fin should tell people what was going on around him, now that he was settled down for the first...