Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have endured your repetition and misuse of "able" and "famed" long enough! I shall not cancel my subscription, as so many of your disgusted readers seem to do. Instead, I shall insist that you send me every last one of the 21 copies which are due me on my present subscription. When I receive them I shall use them as waste paper, lighters for my pipe, wipers for my razor...
...Blank how she had read his verse while a college girls. He will look at her and believe the college part but wonder the rest. And the one from North Hampton will try to engage him in a minor flirtation which will at least amuse her husband and probably send a poet and a Butter and Egg Man out in search of a drink...
Answer No. 62.(February, 1926). "I would advise 'Manufacturer' to send his idiot son to Harvard. I am a recent Harvard graduate myself, and I wish to assure him that there is no university in the country where it is easier to get by with a minimum of work. It is an actual fact that throughout my entire four years I read no more, in the aggregate, than fifty small pages of large type, and that I skipped 80% of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude...
...have a boy who seems to be a damned idiot, chiefly due to inheritance from his mother's father. He has got through high school and now I want to send him to college, a good one, if possible. Of the big ones, which is the easiest? He has good manners and weighs 165 pounds at 19 but he simply has no sense. Where will he have the best chance to get by? This is no joke. I am a busy man, and serious...
...sell others. All were treated with ingenious ingenuousness as real characters with continuous histories, the copy being so well written that the Jollyco doings read like bits of Dickens or Thackeray, with Ivory Soap mentioned quite casually. The public became so interested that thousands of letters poured in: "Send Bobby Jollyco to boarding school. . . . Have Teewee make mud pies. . . . When can Sally Jollyco go to dancing school...