Word: matthew
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Democratization of the language of Sam'l Johnson and Matthew Arnold along the line of popular usage is at best an unwelcome choice of the easiest path. There is some question whether this National Council, headed by Miss Center, is the best arbiter of usage; Miss Center herself unwittingly exposes an ignorance of the etymology of English by branding the phrase "go slow" as traditionally ungrammatical. As for "integrating and directing," even those who dwell in cloistered academic security are able to say that English teachers would have their time pretty well occupied if they attempted to remove the more...
FAREWELL Miss JULIE LOGAN-J. M. Barrie-Scribner ($1). Not many authors and fewer poets know when to retire. Notable exception is Alfred Edward Housman who, at the age of 63, published his Last Poems and has stuck by his announcement. Sir James Matthew Barrie has certainly done his bit for the world of letters; readers, without actually thinking him dead, may well have thought him finished. But now, after nearly 30 years (in which he has written 14 plays but no stories) comes a little Scottish fairy tale as neat as a pin, bright as a button, sentimental...
Collecting human heads in Brazil has its little amenities and points of courtesy, Matthew Williams Stirling, Smithsonian ethnologist, told Washington's Anthropological Society last week. He spent eight weeks with the head-hunting Jivaros, "a simple, rather kindly people," who notify their enemies of intended raids. The "victims" at once dig pitfalls and set trap guns along forest paths, post watchdogs around their tribal house, hide indoors with their women and children until the attack begins...
Vice President Curtis opened the Republican campaign in Pennsylvania last week with his first speech since August, at Fogelsville where Boss Matthew Quay started the custom of starting campaigns in 1908. Since he declared Dry in his speech accepting renomination, many a Wet Pennsylvania Republican had protested the Vice President's appearance in the State. Nominee Curtis, canny politician, ducked Prohibition, talked tariff and farm relief, deluged his listeners with his favorite statistics...
...brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children."-St. Matthew...