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The press refused to take the Secretary of State's first-personal pronouns seriously. It headlined "Hoover Advocates U. S. Court Entry," "Hoover Takes World Court Plan of Root." Seasoned Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert took occasion to remark: "Mr. Hoover is not the kind of executive who turns over problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: World Court | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

PT. BARNUM is perhaps best known to the American people for his statistics on the birth rate of the American sucker, but in his autobiography he sedulously avoids the attitude expressed in his famous aphorism. Rather does he paint himself, in loose, easy sentences stuffed with first personal pronouns, as...

Author: By R. G. West ., | Title: P. T. BARNUM'S OWN STORY. The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum. The Viking Press; New York, 1927. $3.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

He hovered tremulously in a corner. They tore off his father's fingernails. They crunched his father's fingers one by one between wooden slabs. They ran his father through the middle with the cold tines of a pitchfork, tossed him on the white snow beside the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Doughboy | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

Yur attempted illustrations "krem of whet" and "ye krem" would giv any student of fonology a spasm. I never saw em used for the sound in seem. It is always as in gem,-hem. To skolars c is merely the round form of k and some day wil be displaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 4, 1925 | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

The commoner uses of nouns and pronouns.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exams | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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