Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is an exceedingly flattering comment, and one can only suppose that our Mr. Cukor knows whereof he speaks, but to which Boston accent does he refor? Is it the long "a" of Beacon Street, the short "a" of Mattapan, the nasal "a" of Chelsea, or the various assorted inflections that are found from Newton to South Boston and from Milton to the Charlestown Navy Yard...
...John Haynes Holmes, has again stood on a platform; this time he tells us that civilization is doomed; and evidently he expects people to believe that civilization is doomed. But Mr. Holmes does not prove conclusively why one should believe it nor does he prove that be should know whereof be speaks. Perhaps he really does not know anything about the matter. But proof or no proof, Mr. Holmes is saying something, which, even if it lacks the backing of proof or fact certainly has the support that a new idea never has; for it is not a new idea...
Every editor and every man with sufficient courage to write letters to the press (in defiance of the American belief that anyone who does so is fit for a lunatic asylum) can do his bit of the "job" whereof Nemesis despairs...
...give $400 towards a school or college whereof $200 to be paid the next years, & $200 when the work is finished, & the next Court to appoint wheare and what building...
Well, if this is so, and Dean Lobdell should know whereof he speaks, the campus at least more accurately and with greater fidelity imitates the screen than the screen recreates the campus, since film views of the academic life have usually been more comical than representative. But somehow it is hard to visualize the bright young men of New Haven and Cambridge assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts...