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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...
When Lewis Perry became principal of New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy in 1914, he found the school deep in traditions and a $250,000 debt. It had been founded the year Cornwallis surrendered, by John Phillips, whose nephew, Samuel Phillips, started Andover. Daniel Webster went to Exeter; Presidents Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland sent their sons. Other Exonian notables: Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Banker Thomas W. Lament (now president of the trustees...