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...Bindle" is a Pennsylvania Dutch version of the German noun Bündel, in which the umlaut u is pronounced as in the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...means: "hitler" should be an improper noun as designated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements, swing is an impossibility. And what Mr. Clinton doesn't copy, nobody else would play. By the way, take a look...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...pronoun, the book explains further, is a "stand-in" for a noun; adjectives are "gossips" that "tell on" nouns and pronouns; a verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Living Grammar | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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