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...subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...
...goods but to place clothes and furniture of their own on consignment. Much of the secondhand spirit stems directly from the recession. Explains Jane Kulian of the Salvation Army's Red Shield Store in Evanston, Ill.: "Many of our customers are people out of work." Adds Nancy Webster, owner of Nancy's Resale Shoppe in Dallas: "Loads of people who just a few months ago didn't even know these kinds of shops existed are coming in regularly to look for a bargain...
...Nessen and the President might be well advised to open their Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look up the definition of NIM. They would, with red faces, discover that NIM is a verb, defined: "to take from, steal, filch...
...things Your Correspondent has to put up with! From native gaucheries ("Our manners are either bad or nonexistent") to Hollywood movies ("Palm trees don't make Los Angeles an exotic city and options on Ulysses don't make Hollywood a sophisticated one"). Then there's Webster's New International Dictionary (third edition), the "One Hundred Great Books," and all translations of the Bible except the King James Version. Will these insults to a Yaleman's taste (class of 1928) never cease...
Harold B. Conrad, a University employee, was convicted yesterday of destruction of real estate property in Brighton District Court. The Court ordered him to pay $187.50 to the University for damages he caused to a goal-post in Webster Field next to the Stadium...