Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morton L. Schwartz's racehorse Observant : the 65th running of the Travers Stakes, oldest horse race in the U. S.; by four lengths, with Collateral second; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Earl Leonard Mefford's trotter Lord Jim: the Hambletonian Stake, richest ($26,000) trotting race in the U. S.; by winning two heats out of four, with Muscletone second, and Princess Peg third, with one heat each; at Goshen, N. Y...
...whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...
...current ditty much sung by crooners contains the lines: Pardon my Southern accent ... I love y'all. This month the Kiwanians of Augusta, Ga. solemnly resolved to start a crusade against the singular use of "you-all" in Northern books, magazines and cinema...
...Died? Mrs. Eleanor Foster Lansing, 68, daughter of John Watson Foster. Secretary of State under President Harrison, widow of Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Wilson; of a heart attack; in Henderson Harbor, N. Y...
...from the little fellow on the corner lot who buys his stock readymade, to such potent concerns as Charles G. Blake Co. of Chicago who built the $100,000 Gary mausoleum, and Presbrey-Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent...