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...Howard from Zoe Akins' play. The Greeks Had a Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than a sense of decoration. Ina Claire, Joan...
...Land of the Free." Siamese call their country Muang Thai ("Land of the Free") and are in fact free to drink, to take plural wives...
...didn't occur to me when I composed the sentence that it might have a political bearing. It was used solely because it aptly illustrated use of the singular subject and plural verb...
...opening of colleges is just about the same sort of ceremony it was a half score years ago. The same carrying of desks, reading lamps, books and dismantled beds across the campi (he remembered the plural of campus), the same tendency to wear clothing that's a little ahead of the latest word, the some old greetings being shouted from windows and doorways and the same searching for gullible freshmen on whom to practice the same old jokes...
Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...