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...answer is cryptic, as befits a man whose time is worth "$10,000 per day." (Satevepost Dec. 5). "Dear Mr. McMasters," he said, "This is in reply to your letter of November 3. May I call to your attention what the Merriam Webster Dictionary has to say about collective nouns? Even old reporters can learn new tricks. Sincerely, John Fox." He must have been very busy as his letter bore the date of Dec. 1, nearly four weeks after mine was sent. I thanked him for his kind directive to an old reporter and told him that I had consulted...
...have done so. Century gives us WORLD--Mankind, or the public generally (as, the whole world knows it); also (as, the world worships success). Webster (Mr. Fox's authority) says, for Collective noun. Gram. A noun naming a collection or aggregate of individuals by a singular form (assembly, army, jury). When the designated collection is thought of as a whole, the noun takes a singular verb. (Mr. Fox said: "the world, by and large."). It strikes me that Mr. Fox has confounded the editorial ""we' with his many other activities and now regards himself as a collective noun, but even...
TAPE-recorder fans will soon be able to buy hour-long concerts to play on their machines. Webster-Chicago Corp. and Pentron Corp. are planning to market prerecorded tapes of classics, eventually hope to put out two-hour tapes...
...family had four stores. Harry White was born Oct. 29, 1892, at 57 Lowell Street, Boston, in a crowded, busy, tenement district beneath the dust and roar of the el. A nervous boy, he belonged to a grade-school group that met one night a week at the Webster Literary Club, where each boy would write and read a composition and all would discuss them. When the family began to prosper, they moved to Everett, a Boston suburb, where Harry attended high school. His grades (79 in French, 85 in chemistry) gave no clear sign of his later brilliance...
...Casler's review of Annette Colish's Sunday night violin recital at Adams House was of general interest throughout the University, not only to music lovers but also to fans of Noah Webster...