Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quoted Philadelphia Purist Dr. Howard McClenahan correctly on p. 44 of TIME, Feb. 26, isn't there some question whether or not Princeton's ex-Dean Mac himself indulged in a solecism when he said: "Such grammatical mistakes are inexcusable...
...sick and can't live without special care. I've been giving him medicine ever since I left Boston. I have worried about this dog more than I did when my business went on the rocks and I lost $700.000 or $800,000. The dog isn't worth ten cents to whoever kidnapped him. but I wouldn't have sold him for $10.000. . . . The damn dog has something. He steals every show he enters...
...realize that most of his money is being held this way. He gives to a budget and supposes that if reductions are necessary they will be made proportionately on all items, not on missions alone. ... In some cases the bishops have failed to send their share. What isn't held back by the priest is kept by the bishop. The deep shame of keeping the money lies in the fact that there is no one to protest, to the hurt of men and women who trust us out in the far corners of the world...
...knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...
...Censorship is what ruins the plays which are taken from Broadway and turned into pictures," continued Mr. Gribble, "It makes motion picture production absolutely dishonest. There isn't a fact of life which can be shown on the screen. In certain shows you can't even mention the fact that a woman is going to have a baby. The reason why pictures are unintelligible even to minors is that they are not made to conform with any standard of morality but with a synthetic code made up by committees of bigoted people...