Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This does not mean, except literally, that the art of punctuation has gone into its dotage. It is similar to the Victorian's excessive and indiscriminate use of the dash, especially in letters which amuse when exhumed by biographers. And as one lapses into the more familiar denotation, it is easy to sce how this new usage follows in the tradition of moving pictures and illustrated papers, in lifting from the people the burden of thought. The comma brings the reader to a sharp pause, and a consideration of the ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through...
...real facts about the early days in America and presented the matter in such a light as to contaminate the minds of Chicago's citizen with the viewpoints of our country's onetime enemies. He particularly feared "Angelicizing" of the viewpoint of inhabitants of Chicago, although he did not use quite that expression...
Ostriches do not hide their heads to shield their bodies. That is an old fable, that learned Dr. Noyes surely knows. And for him to use the fable to belittle anti-evolutionists is foul logic. It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness...
...Foley, don't spend your time talking. Keep moving. Leave the ladies alone until after duty's over. Use better judgment. Stop talking politics. Keep moving. . . . Report cars parked in the street all night. Prosecute the parkers...
...prints, for it contains many unpublished reproductions of prints which are either unique or excessively rare and very widely scattered, and makes possible a serious study of early German engraving. It is particularly enlightening in showing the close relationship between engraving and other forms of art and the use made by artists in other media of designs used by engravers...