Word: misters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mister Edison sits on a throne...
...word is used more often, it becomes polished and more easily pronounceable. He cites "auto" for "automobile" and "I wanna go" for "I want to go" as obvious examples, and points out that among 100,000 connected words the term "master" occurs only 13 times, while the term "mister", familiar to the ear, therefore more lightly accented and less "conspicuous", occurs 148 times...
...Guaranteed.! Analyze it, mister! I esk you personally to analyze it! We call this our 'ladies' shop'! Four more we got in New York, and on Broadway one silver and black! Deliver anything anytime from 8 a. m. to 2 a. m. Just phone Murray Hill 7522 and ask for Mack. You see this cherry brandy?"-holding up a large bottle in which floated four cherries-"That stuff is 90 proof, ninetee proof...
David Wm. James, in his incorrect and unTIMEly criticism (TIME, Dec. 30, p. 2) of Mister Speaker's background (TIME. Dec. 16, frontispiece), shows lack of Boy Scout training. I suggest that he cooperate with the nearest troop where any tenderfoot scout can tell him HIS UNDERSTANDING of courtesies due our National Emblem NEEDS REVERSAL...