Word: plurals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheered by 12,000 brownshirts in Berlin's vast Sportspalast, Governor Kube shouted: "Through the person of Adolf Hitler-whose mission is divine-every German has become more self-confident and valuable. It is wrong to speak in the plural of Nazi leaders. Our Nazi movement is monarchistic and knows only one leader-Adolf Hitler...
...issue of Sept. 26. in quotes you use plural of "stooge."' Just what is a stooge...
...advertise their universality. Actually, of course, the word derived from the French nouvellcs and is now construed as singular. It used to be a plural. Queen Victoria, for example, wrote: "The news from Austria are very...
...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...