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MARK TWAIN, BUSINESS MAN-edited by Samuel Charles Webster-'Little, Brown...
Sirs: In your Nov. 5 issue I find, on p. 88, the adjective "persnickety." I have just bought, at no little cost to myself, Webster's New International, Second Edition, which is said to contain nearly 600,000 words. I find no such adjective as "persnickety." I do not mean to be pernickety, but have I been gypped...
...oculist, perhaps; but not by Webster. On p. 1827 Reader Woolf will find "persnickety" as a variant of "pernickety...
...Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...
...Webster Groves...