Word: neutered
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...bride.a Miss Grace Louise Himebaugh. Whether Hoyt subsequently changed his mind, sex or both was but darkly indicated by the fact that the marriage license was never filed, the wedding therefore probably never performed. Last week, as Bostonians wondered whether the late Hoyt was masculine, feminine or neuter, a hearing was set for late summer in Middlesex Probate Court, Middlesex County, Mass...
Frank King last week left Walt & Phyllis debating whether or not to "take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...
...this peculiar scarlet emphasis by Der Reichsführer upon his refusal of mercy to two women? In an effort to explain, an excited editor of the New York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland...
...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...