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...spelynge wordes allwaies in one waye and now affect diversite. The chief vertew of my reform is that it makes the spelynge express the moode of the wryter. For instance, if yew are fealin frenly, ye kin spel frenly-like. Butte if yew wyshe to indicate that, thogh nott of hyghe bloode, yew are compleately atte one with the aristokrasy, yew canne double alle youre consonnantts, prollonge mosstte of yourre vowelles and adde a fynalle 'e' wherevverre itte iss requirred. Thysse gyvves a sennsse of leissuure ande quiette dygnittie...
...duel was fought in Texas by Alexander Shott and John E. Nott. Nott was better to be Shott, than Nott. There was shot and Shott was not. In the case it is a rumor that Nott was not Shott, but Shott a vows that he was not, which proves either that the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot or that Nott was that not with standing. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot Nott or, as accidents with firearms are frequent, it may be possible that the shot Shott shot shot...
Like Harvard, Yale has only one defeat on its slate but did not participate in as many meets as the Crimson forces. Its win column includes Andover, Nott Terrace High School, and Princeton, while it has succumbed only to a strong Mercersburg team...
Judge Charles Nott Jr., who sentenced him, simply summarized Boss Hines thus...
Memorable for Harry Hopkins' speech in Iowa, which may help decide the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 (see p. 11), last week was also punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey...