Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Webster Sandford, Jr., of Plain-field, New Jersey
...TIME of Oct. 19 under Animals the police-man was "surprised'' to behold the old gent peering through the binoculars. It strikes me that your writer has fallen into the same error in the use of the word surprise as did Mrs. Noah Webster, who was duly corrected by her erudite husband...
Noah, at least the story goes, was caught by Mrs. Webster in a somewhat compromising situation with the housemaid. "Why Noah." she exclaimed. "I am surprised"; to which he replied "No dear, / am surprised. You are astonished...
Coach Bert Haines and A. N. Webster '31 will have charge of the machine work this season, which lasts until shortly after mid-years, while Coach Whiteside will take charge of those men who are advanced enough to row in the tank...
...more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but one udder, the gland which secretes milk. The appendages on each quarter, from which the milk is drawn, are correctly known as teats- inelegantly but rather universally pronounced "tits," Mr. Webster to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope no newborn delicacy prompted TIME'S lapse from the correct biological description...