Word: recrossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that wasn't so-' "Let us write a nice list of mistakes they can use, "And publish a broadside 'gainst those who enthuse "About writing correctly; we simply can't bother. "But for all unmistakable errors-well, rather! "We'll cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition we'll leave to the fools "Who are picayune, narrow, and nasty enough "To insist that their pupils must master...
...moral in the last sentence Mr. Bris bane has repeated as often as that child-rearing and travel broaden one. An incessant traveler himself, he happened to recross Kansas last week. Another colyumist, Urban Heywood Broun (reputedly earns more than $50,000 yearly), also crossed Kansas last week-for the first time...