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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs in the Earle family. Eyvind's father, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, is noted not only for five successive marriages and a generally Byronic character but for his writing. He recoined the delicate noun "affinity" into its special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...
...English language owes a debt of incalculable size to Buncombe County, N. C. for a fine eight-letter noun that aptly identifies certain types of insincerity. The U. S. Senate owes a debt of questionable size to the same county for Senator Robert Rice (''Roarin' Bob") Reynolds. Last week Washington newshawks had fun with an incident that concerned Bob Reynolds and somehow seemed to recall the name of the county of his birth...
Logorrheic is an adjective founded upon the Greek roots logos (word) and rhein (to flow). Webster's New International Dictionary lists the noun TIME used adjectivally: "Logorrhea (psychopathological). Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness...
Webster's Dictionary defines the noun Norse: ". . . Collectively: a. Scandinavians. b. Norwegians...
...Philadelphia's Board of Education last week fell that same stern gaze when Dr. McClenahan, a member since 1931, uprose to announce that the Board was "guilty of sending out illiterate reports of its own proceedings." In its published minutes he had found a split infinitive, a singular noun followed by a plural verb...