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There is a saying that a new word added to one's vocabulary is worth $10, so I avidly reached for my Webster's Twentieth Century Unabridged when my eyes lit upon "logorrheic'' on p. 8 of your Nov. 2 issue. I felt cheated when I found nothing between logometric and Logos. Rather than lose $10 worth of culture I am risking 3? to ask you to elucidate...
Logorrheic is an adjective founded upon the Greek roots logos (word) and rhein (to flow). Webster's New International Dictionary lists the noun TIME used adjectivally: "Logorrhea (psychopathological). Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness...
...Webster's Dictionary defines the noun Norse: ". . . Collectively: a. Scandinavians. b. Norwegians...
...Robert H. Sproat, 3rd. '38; Maurice Steinberg '39; Felix F. Stumpf '38; Arthur Szathmary '37; Harold R. Taylor '39; Alfred W. Teichmeier, Jr. '38; Arthur E. Tiemann '39; Daniel Tower '37; Henry H. Urrows '38; Albert H. Walker '37; Thayer S. Warshaw '37; Ira A. Watson '37; Walter W. Webster, Jr. '39; Albert E. Weiner...
...they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result...