Word: raves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Carolina in a way which seems to indicate an erroneous viewpoint as to the political appeal of Senator Blease and ex-Senator Dial. You used the adjective "blatherskite" to describe both Blease and Dial. You also linked the words, "the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage...
...entire procedure, pays all bills, arranges speaking programs, allots expenses on a pro-rata basis. Aspirants speak seriatim the same night in the same place, a method obviously conducive to personalities and retorts discourteous. In this "joint debate" system the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage, fume, spume, howl- over imaginary issues. Under these conditions Washington really expects long-haired sombreroed political buffoons-and that is just what Washington sometimes gets, although Senator Smith is a happy exception...
...mispronounces it. "-But we spel leag so foreners and children won't pronouns it in 2 sylables like ague. They call head heed, like bead, but our hed is clearer as is our shorter and better hav; but have will be pronounsd like gave, lave, nave, rave, save, wave. We all know by, my, try, etc. Extended study has proved y the best way to write this sound, so we spel replyd, hyt (for the absurd height), myt. Some spellings move the mirth of novices in fonology, but it makes them think and perhaps inquire and they see that...
...Johnsons rave, the Borahs howl...
...through with a straight face. The Critics. Many Marriages appeared first in The Dial It was hailed by the extremely advanced as another of the yearly crop of "great American novels." Since its publication in book form its reception has been uneven. It is an easy book to rave over and an even easier one at which to laugh. A few of the unintelligently prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking. F. P. A., of The New York World, was bored by it. So were Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, and Edmund Wilson, Jr., of The Dial...