Word: neuter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...split infinitive is a natural English locution found in the best writers (e. g.. Byron, Carlyle, Browning). Greek used singular verbs with neuter plural subjects: the English tendency to do the opposite is caused by psychological and linguistic forces whose subtlety and complexity Dr. McClenahan probably never dreamed of, and an arbitrary interpretation of which even a trained linguistic scientist might hesitate to attempt...
...deep and occult mystery, but it is patent to all that the college student is alike an affliction to himself and to the world. Whether he be the gin-drinking, neurotically erotic, three-gallons-of-gas-and-a-dark-lane sort, or the sweet grind sedulously poring his neuter way through dusty tomes, or one of the infinite gradations between, he is a sorry confection to send out into the great world to take his place in the ruling class. He has no ideals worthy of the name, and of most subjects with which an educated gentleman should be familiar...
...women who are . . . scientific . . . are a race set apart ... a neutral people," in the opinion of Albert Einstein. And no neuter-lover is he. He was divorced 15 years ago from his first wife, Clara, Serbian mathematician, with whom he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and who bore his two sons, Albert and Edward...
...Briand. Like one of those teetering round-bottomed toys called a "Bob-up" (feminine "Susy Dam," neuter "Be-ba-bo"), French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand bobbed up next morning, professing to see no rebuke to France in "Uncle Arthur's" speech. Of course France favors Disarmament, he smoothly observed, pointed to a passage in his own speech preceding Mr. Henderson's. He had said that Security must precede Disarmament, added that France has "notably reduced" her armaments on the basis of the partial security, she has already achieved, concluded loudly...
...Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just as he did before he passed over. . . . My [parents] were devoted to each other at all times. . . . His last words...