Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is something another national weekly (the ? ?*) will not do. Some time since, in answer to a correspondent somewhere in Iowa, this periodical stated: "Tenderfeet is wrong; the proper plural of Tenderfoot is Tenderfoots...
...immediately wrote to the editor stating that I had lived in the West for 38 years and had heard the expression hundreds of times, and that the proper plural is "Tenderfeet." To be sure I submitted the matter to a dinner club of 25 gentlemen? lawyers, doctors, professors, bankers and businessmen?who had all lived in the West ten to twenty years or more. They were all familiar with the use of the word "tenderfoot" to designate some one newly arrived and green to the ways of the West, and they were all agreed that "tenderfeet" was the only plural...
...long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect to the wise and dangerous to the masses...
...Rhinelander could bring action for annulment, charging fraud. This course had already been adopted when he (Judge Mills) was called into the case; but it was also the course which he himself would have recommended as "the only practicable, safe and proper...
...acknowledged in American education--that the function of a College should be to produce, not scholars merely, but men broadly developed, complete in every sense, and prepared for lives of active leadership in the world. As long as sports remained only a dangling appurtenance to the academic structure proper, this aim was still far from realization...