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...wore striped pants, a wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
...would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'E's' in our language is disgrasful. Therfor, in 1961, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of eduka-tion. Sins by this tim it would be four years sins anywun had used the leter 'C', we would then sugest substituting...
Brightest of thes estars is rangy, six foot three inch Tom Woods who, Brooks believes, will develop into an exceptional backstroker. Woods, who was not a great start at Exeter last year, seems to have come into his own this fall...
...with you, or we will bring you home. go on, now; and don't get us into trouble!" No Timesman's dispatch is cut except for space reasons, ever materially changed except for the necessary addition, by the paper's twelve cable copyreaders, of "ands" and "thes" (left out of cables to save tolls...
...faults are obvious. ... I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking. . . . But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency. . . . Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...