Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PETER PANTHEISM-Robert Haven Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest...
...declare them unconstitutional. Therefore President Coolidge has restricted himself to throwing out unofficial hints from the White House that he is sure Mexico will live up to her treaties (TIME, Jan. 18, PRESIDENCY); and the State Department has taken no further action than to have Ambassador Sheffield substantially repeat the President's hints at Mexico City in the form of diplomatic protests...
Rawlins Hopes to Repeat...
...face of this record Captain Cumings and his team will strive to repeat last year's win over the invaders. Last year's Crimson squad, which humbled the Toronto six for the first time since 1913, by a 2 to 1 margin, was in much the same condition as this year's team. The skaters started slowly in the first two games but were coming along fast at the time of the Toronto game. The showing of Coach Bigelow's men in the McGill game Saturday night proved them a dangerous team. McGill has won once and lost once with...
...either a "he" or a "she" and any parent will agree with me that nothing raises said parent's ire like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky...