Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to protest the misspelling of my name on the letter page of your issue of Nov. 12. I have no desire to be thought a "Robbin...
...Manchester Guardian (Liberal) and the London Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism. King George has been pleased to convey officially his appreciation of this great service in a letter of thankful congratulation (1921), but the Crown has not bestowed so much as a knighthood on venerable Editor Scott...
...suspenders for exercisers, with inkwells tied to the ends for weighs. You can imagine what a hard time poor Mr. Sullivan has with her. But if you can't, he tells you. As, for example, getting her to take dictation, which he sets forth thus: "Miss Hepplethwaite, take a letter...Why not?..Don't I pay you to take letters, or did you think I had you around here just for the sheer joy of living? ..Go ahead, be a, sport and take the letter, Martha..Well, why not?..You are the beatin...
...Well, I've got to have a letter taken by somebody. . . It's been days and days since I've given you a letter and you've taken it, and when you come to think of it, after all, life just resolves itself into a question of give and take, doesn...
...Will you take the letter. Martha? . . Stop drumming on the table . . You're not in the mood to take a letter? . . Who told you you could go in for moods? . . Lay off moods, Hepplethwaite; leave them for your betters...