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PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The story of Daniel Webster, torn between loyalty to the Union and hatred of slavery...
...What is unique about the Merriam Cooper 'Webster's--Third Edition...
NOVEMBER--Webster's New International Dictionary spells Americans with a "u." Boston merchants bring out a spate of products honoring the late President and commemorating the impending Christmas season; hair-stylists offer the Kennedy Bob, tov manufacturers the Kennedy Teddy, service stations the Kennedy Jack and Kennedy Ethel, florists the Kennedy Rose, and even social welfare agencies get in the act; they send around a good guy with holiday cheer known as the Kennedy...
...Ghent, word of which took 52 days to reach Boston. The society grew rapidly, until by the late 1850s it was more than 700 voices strong. Not a historical event passed in old Boston that the society did not commemorate with a concert, featuring such speakers as Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...take it from the parenthesis that the printing confused Mr. R. It certainly seems to have. Let us ask him, what precisely did you mean by this word "shoddy"? Webster defines it as "a variety of reclaimed wool, obtained by pulling apart worsteds or woolens." Now if Mr. R. is using the word in its proper sense (something one can never assume with your writers), just what is he implying? That Miss Peruty is woolyheaded? Or that her arguments can be picked apart? Just what does he think this whole thing is, a joke...