Word: semicolons
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...cannot write grammatically," says Martin proudly, "I can think, talk and feel like other men. I never learned the rules of punctuation any farther than just to assist in fixing a comma to the British depredations in the state of New York; a semicolon in New Jersey; a colon in Pennsylvania, and a final period in Virginia;-a note of interrogation, why we were made to suffer so much in so good and just a cause; and a note of admiration to all the world, that an army voluntarily engaged to serve their country, when starved and naked and suffering...
...semicolon you are duped...
...that the Communist issue had beaten Pepper, not the Fair Deal. On-the-scene political writers mostly believed that while the Red attack had something to do with it, what had really beaten Pepper was FEPC and the segregation issue. Whatever Floridians had in mind, they had put a semicolon, at least, to a long, loquacious and erratic career...
...thereupon all vice presidents, managing and senior editors and other executives snap into line, and that teams of writers and researchers then proceed-with a precision that would make the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes look like an awkward squad-to produce that exact story down to the last semicolon. In short, put idea in slot, pull lever and zing-next thing you know a million copies are all over every place...
...campus story, when she was traveling in a lower berth, the man in the upper threw down a note reading "MADAM; Shall I come down?" Miss Chase, in describing the adventure, concluded: "Almost more than my terror at this moment was my horror at the monstrous use of the semicolon...