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...said Adolf Hitler every 53 words; Mussolini, every 83 words; President Roosevelt, every 100 words. These were the findings of a Syracuse University student making a survey of their speeches. Additional "I" data: Premier Daladier uses the personal pronoun every 234 words; Prime Minister Chamberlain only once...
...places. We heard at first hand the story of those now world-famous exploits of the Emden and the unbelievable heroism of the trip from Keeling Island to Turkey. . . . The thing that struck us all and made the deepest impression was the almost complete lack of appearance of the pronoun "I" in any of the narrative...
...Washington as in Wall Street, S. F. Porter has long since ceased to be an unknown columnist. No longer is there any real mystery about the pronoun. Yet last week, when Harpers published an able, informative tract freely sharing some of a recognized expert's secrets on How To Make Money in Government Bonds ($3), Author Porter's special secret was tactfully kept...
...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...
...pronoun did not refer solely to smart Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...