Word: pedanticism
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¶ Dr. Henry P. Laughlin used himself as an example to illustrate his thesis that a man who takes an unreasonable dislike to another is probably seeing something of himself in the second man. Dr. Laughlin was the only one in a movie party who detested the second male lead...
Declaiming last week before a Senate hearing on mine safety, John L. Lewis dealt with the killing and maiming of his United Mine Workers in such disasters as the recent underground explosion at West Frankfort (Ill.), where 119 men lost their lives,† The shaggy eyebrows quivered with scorn, the...
Don nervous, Don of crudities; Don clerical, Don ordinary, Don self-absorbed and solitary; Don here-and-there, Don epileptic; Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic; Don middleclass, Don sycophantic, Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic; Don hypocritical, Don bad, Don furtive, Don three-quarters mad; Don (since a man...
When young Publisher George Hecht was ready to launch Children, the Magazine for Parents in 1926 (the title was shaved to the Parents' Magazine three years later), he offered her the editorship. She soon found out that "editing" meant rewriting into readable form the pedantic prose of the medical...
Walter Lippmann, 62, onetime editor of the New York World, is the dean of the pundits, has written his column, "Today and Tomorrow," for 20 years (syndication: 190 papers). Aloof and independent politically, Lippmann is probably the most widely quoted despite his pedantic, but-on-the-other-hand style, has...