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Potent and almost omnipotent is Signor Benito Mussolini, but not plural. Though he count himself up 1,000 times he must still total himself-one. Last week, however, the cheerful Dictator with the smouldering eyes and confident uplifted chin made the best of his physical singularity by turning himself into a legal majority of 7 in his cabinet...
...Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep. Certainly they require very little sleep...
There is some doubt as to whether Siamese twins should be discussed in terms of the singular or plural, although from the examples of mental incompatibility they seem occasionally less congenial than identical twins. Margaret ("Maggie") and Mary ("Puddin' ") Gibbs of Holyoke, Mass., reputedly the only U. S. born and bred Siamese twins, vaudeville artists, deny that they are identical. "We have different ideas of pleasure," they say. In England alcoholism and prohibition are united in one pair of Siamese twins...
Autocars, plural trade name, registered, well-advertised (not plastically), of motor trucks manufactured by Autocar Company (est. 1897), Ardmore, Pa., invariably, insistently begun with capital...
...word in plural form likewise questionable. ... As an advertised product there is only one Autocar...