Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention to R. W. Graham of Philadelphia who does not like the phrase you always use with Heflin's name. Keep it up. I do not believe Graham, because I think that Heflin mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope more than anybody in the whole world...
Despite several protests I note (with much pleasure) that you do not quibble but continue to use the phrase. It is the absolute truth so why should TIME discontinue writing...
...flagship the new British post-Washington Treaty cruiser Suffolk. Strictly speaking the Suffolk, when empty of stores, water, fuel and ammunition, just comes within the Treaty limitation of 10,000 tons. But in the building of the Suffolk thousands of parts have been made of aluminum, where use of a heavier metal would have been standard practice. Judged from the standpoint of fighting strength, the 10,000-ton Suffolk probably outrates an ordinary 13,000 tonner
Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun, Ritz; Ritz is the name of the smartest chain of hotels in the world...
George Bernard Shaw, author, vegetarian, made a horrid mistake in grammar while instructing people in the use of correct English on his first gramophone record for the Linguaphone Institute in London. He allowed his voice to say: "If what you hear is very disappointing and you feel instinctively 'that must be a horrid man,' you may be quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other...