Word: marring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under MISCELLANY, Mar. 9, 1925, you inform an interested public of a knifing match following a "jamboree given by the Oberdam Social Club (Irish)." Your logic may be strong but your line of reasoning is most inconsistent. A fight; ergo Irish! But did it occur to you that the Irish rarely use knives in a fight? The club referred to is not Irish. It is composed entirely and exclusively of Americans of Italian blood. Statements such as the above might be excused if made deliberately; but if you are interested enough in the club to write about it, you should...
...York, N. Y. Mar...
Stirred by A. H. Miles' unjust accusation against TIME on the grounds of grammatical inaccuracy (issue of Mar. 9); I hasten to support you in a matter of vital importance- whether "broadcast" or "broadcasted" is the proper past tense of the verb "to broadcast...
...York, N. Y. Mar...
Your LETTERS afford me many a chuckle. In today's issue, Mar: 9, A. H. Miles writes "broadcasted" is a grammatical error. How could you lose the opportunity to tell him "grammatical error" is quite likely to strike the eye of the educated? A word may be ungrammatical or it may be an error in English, but it could hardly be both grammatical and erroneous...