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Lectures number eight and nine in the program which began last month will both be delivered in English to enable non-multi-lingual students to grapple with the finer points of the renowned Spanish romance. Both speeches will begin at 8 o'clock...
...stands dis graced before the world" reminds me of "the nine tailors of Tooley Street." He covers too much territory, and his own language is too atomic. A few more nouns like atrocity, outrage, perpetrator, crime, and adjectives such as hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate the human race. The good...
...leaders had infiltrated into patriotic societies, boards of trade and municipal councils. He said that Quebec's potent, ultraisolationist party, the Bloc Populaire, was the Order's political tool. He said that the Order's ultimate aim "is not only to disunite the people on lingual and religious matters, but also to disrupt confederation, to abandon the more humane North American concept of a large nation composed of different religious beliefs and racial origins and to revert to the old European concept of smaller nations of the same religious and racial descent...
Reason for this interest in lingual acrobatics is that tongue-rolling ability appears to be an inherited character. In his family studies, Geneticist Sturtevant found that where both parents were positive, most children were positive, that where both parents were negative, most children were negative. (But the character does not breed true; that is, positive parents sometimes have negative children and vice versa...
...your article, "Hold Barred," included in the Radio department of TIME, April 24, be it known to you, sirs, that song lyrics need not be guilty of lingual tergiversation with a Krafft-Ebing tinge in order to get themselves barred from the Great Chains...