Word: adverb
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...name of what seems to Mr. Chase piffling scholarship, an "Albigensian crusade" against good teaching. A good deal of this is surely pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...
...left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain the noun transvestite, the verb transvestize, the adjective transvestile, the adverb transvestily. Example: 'Transvestizing herself she became transvestile so transvestily that she may fairly be called a transvestite...
...answer: "NO, I do not intend to ever write an opera-to sing them is enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor put it on the front page under a "by-line." Seasoned reporters eventually get used to seeing...
...verb "broadcast" is a comparatively recent addition to the English language, formed on the adverb "broadcast." It is an accepted rule that coined words should be inflected regularly and, in this case, "broadcasted" would be the regular past tense of a weak verb. "Broadcast" as the past tense is, then, technically incorrect...
...tackle a man when he catches a punt lest you make him muff it. Those tactics worked for 12 yrs. like a wolf trying to crawl through a bathroom window but finely they turned around and bit them. Will Elihu Yale try those tactics again? Only as an adverb...