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...should like to know your authority for the abbreviation SS. for Saints. According to my Webster if it were small ss it should be interpreted "shilling-shilling Peter and Paul"; if capital SS, either South-South or Southern Southern Peter and Paul. And I judge the correct abbreviation should be StSt Peter and Paul. I may be wrong...
...According to TIME'S Webster and The Catholic Encyclopedia, SS. is a proper abbreviation for Saints...
...secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted to memorize. Thus read, it would join his vast store from the Bible, Shakespeare, Britain's Burke and Fox and Pitt, Massachusetts' Daniel Webster, Emerson, many & many another remembered page...
Presented last week in the Living Church were the findings of a nationwide survey of insanity among Episcopal clergy by the Rev. Stephen Webster, Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Weston, Mass., and chaplain of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, aided by Psychiatrist Kenneth James Tillotson. One out of every 71 Episcopal clergymen is a mental case, Mr. Webster reported. "This is ... low compared to the general population. There are figures to show that 1 in every 22 of the general population will have a mental disorder some time during their life...
Sirs: TIME Dec. 25, p. 26: "obsquatulate his opponent." NUTS. Webster's 20th Century Unabridged Dictionary does not even give "obsquatulate," does give "absquatulate" meaning to leave suddenly, to decamp. Says it's slang...