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...apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb-We contacted Mr. Smith.' ... So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview, or talk to people, there can be no apology for 'contact...
...Parliamentarian of Europe," knew well enough that what Mr. Stimson had called "all the pressure and authority" of the League is not enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...
...Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...
...didn't occur to me when I composed the sentence that it might have a political bearing. It was used solely because it aptly illustrated use of the singular subject and plural verb...
...land, will be allowed to stay on it as a humble toiler on the Government's "collective farm." In the Dictator's mind such a policy smacks of weakness, sentimentality and therefore danger. "The kulak must be completely liquidated!," he wrote, using a popular but ambiguous Soviet verb also correctly used in the sentences, "Let the hangman now liquidate the condemned!" and "Let us, Comrade, endeavor to liquidate the static in our radio...