Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their honeymoon in Mexico, Lennie happened to discover that Felicia did not know what a past participle was, and proceeded to give grammar lessons till she burst into tears. She admits that Lennie has been "hard to live with?but what man worth living with isn't? And every now and then he just makes you want to cry, 'Oh, thank you for loving me!'" Despite her porcelain fragility. Felicia soon instilled some fireside virtues in her man. They have two children? Jamie, 5, and Alexander Serge (named for Koussevitzky). 19 months?and live in a nine-room duplex just...
...Polish letter read as follows: "President of the Harvard University, Cambridge-Boston. Sir, I address to you with a pray: can you let send me a Manual of English and American Literature and Grammar and a Manual of English and American History? It's impossible here to get these books. Yours Faithfully, mgr. Michel Winogrodzki, schoolmaster, Silesia, Poland...
...admit she likes the play, which has qualities that even the most prudent might admire; she observes pontifically, "It is probably the only play of the past few years written by an undergraduate that has received any serious attention." That's safe enough all right, even if the grammar isn't the best. When she throws over her whole magazine to one writer, it represents quite a sacrifice, and she ought to be proud. She seems more concerned about her honor, however, and I guess we all know what happened to that, long...
...junior year to see if he needs extra work. Passing a second test would become a part of the law school's regular requirements for admission. "It is perhaps too much to hope that by this measure the apparently moribund study of English grammar will be revitalized in secondary schools. We can at least expect that the literature of the law will eventually be the better for.it...
...stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds...