Word: nouns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of these Mavericks was another Samuel, one of the great cattlemen of the nineteenth century who, leaving his cattle unbranded, made "maverick" a common as well as a proper noun. His grandson Maury Maverick was a controversial Texas Congressman and reform-minded mayor of San Antonio; Maury Maverick, Jr., is a lawyer, writer, and leading spokesman for the Texas liberal movement...
...word 'Jew' is a noun," he advised, "and should never be used as an adjective or verb. To speak of 'Jew girls' or 'Jew stories' is both objectionable and vulgar. The use of the word Jew as a verb-'to Jew down'-is a slang survival of the medieval term of opprobrium, and should be avoided altogether...
Relax and look up the word reverend in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). You and your Protestant clergymen are hopelessly behind the times. The word reverend has graduated to the category of a noun, "rev'er-end-n-s: a member of the clergy: minister, priest, pastor . . . (saw the Reverend walking down the road)." Call me Reverend...
...safe, nondenominational way to be wrong is to call a churchman "reverend" -which is an adjective rather than a noun, and is likely to bring a shudder from even the kindliest clergyman when used as a title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery...
...Webster, the political sense of the noun issue ranks only eighth in importance...