Word: tyne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right is Reader Freeman, who might also have mentioned: Glasgow, Glaswegian; Salisbury, Sarumite; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Geordie; Portsmouth, Pompeyite...
Since the beginning of the present century, historians like Sydney George Fisher, Claude H. Van Tyne, Francis V. Greene, by a process known as making Washington less of a statue and more of a human being, have busily reduced the prodigious figure to something nearer their own size and understanding. They were doing quite nicely when along came Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, by whom, says Knollenberg testily, "their work has been largely undone." So exasperated does Historian Knollenberg become in undoing this undoing that he accuses Historian Fitzpatrick of taking literally a remark of Washington Irving's: "There...