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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kent has been so enthusiastic, or so hurried, that he has by no means compiled the fully-detailed lexicon that he might have made, considering his powers and experience. He is repetitious. But he is trenchant, illuminating, entertaining. Items from the actual, continual, successful life and credo of the experienced national officeholder...
...friend of her father's called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such as he often composed, he signed, with a Latin transliteration of his first two names, Lewis Carroll. Alice Liddell...
...well known that the birth-rate of words is high, the world does not so fully realize how many of them are born crippled. The burden of that knowledge intimates Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly. Managing Editor of the New Standard Dictionary, rests upon the compiler of a lexicon. Within two days he has reserved seventeen barbarities aspiring to a legitimate place in the world's least redundant book...
...days, in the bright lexicon of the Senior's youth, are fast merging into "Might-have-been" nights. R. SIMUIANT
...official recognition by Cardinal Richelieu, the virtual ruler of France, in 1635-ordained that the English word "interview " shall hereafter be considered a good French word and incorporated in the new dictionary upon which work has been progressing for many years. Although the word "gentilhomme " exists in the French lexicon, it was recently decided to add the English equivalent "gentleman...