Word: jot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Henry may perhaps be remotely autobiographical when he has his hero start the book by saying: "I thank God that I have always possessed an instinct to jot things down on paper." In any case, while his book is marred by certain immaturities of style and some inexcusably bromidic Latin and French quotations, he himself has managed to jot down a not-too-implausible tale, and some fairly deft characterizations. In between his other activities, he has evidently given some thought to Harvard's race question also, for echoes of that problem appear throughout the story...
...Eisenach, Germany, last year, was the unification of Lutherans from every country. The second result became apparent last week when a statement of the Eisenach position of theology was published in the U. S. The statement sharply distinguishes between Lutherans and all other Protestant denominations, and denounces every jot and tittle of modernism...
...power in Germany will remain precisely where it was during the last Government, i. e., in the hands of Stresemann, Jarres and General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichwehr. It follows as an unavoidable corollary that the policy of the present Government will not be changed one jot or tittle...
Concentrating on the conversation -which is steadily diverting and occasionally dazzling-one is led to suspect that Mr. Maugham, retiring after a particularly amusing dinner party, stopped Jong enough between his collar and his braces to jot down the smartest of the evening's causerie. On second thought, the play is altogether too smoothly starched for that. Mr. Maugham must have written it in a full dress suit...
...securely rooted. It appears that all good Spaniards went to bed one night only to awaken next morning to find that a revolution had taken place, apparently without resistance and without bloodshed. Everyone accepted the new Government somewhat sheepishly, and the economic life of the country was undisturbed one jot or tittle...