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...difficult to say what turn the language will take next. Perhaps the rest of the country will follow the example of the people in a small, secluded New Hampshire village where alone W. L. George found correct pronunciation, and with them adopt once more old with them adopt once more old Elizabethan wages...
...most correct English I heard during my short visit to the United States two years ago came from the mouth of a red-cap in Boston!" says St. John Ervine in a recent article in Vanity Fair; and almost simultaneously appears a letter in the Boston Herald scoring the use of a glaring split infinitive in the correspondence of the Associated Harvard Clubs. A passing observance on the signs of the times, and a joint argument for renewed activity on the part of the purists...
...stories one feels that one has looked at Sussex towns and people too, from these intimate, if unconventional vantage points. One feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...beams cross the ceiling. Despite these drawbacks, the settings designed by D. M. Oenslager were admirable, simple in their broad lines, charming in detail. The lighting, which was obtained by a new process, with colored silks used as screens, produced soft and pleasing effects. The costumes were all irreproachably correct...
Thanking you for this opportunity to correct wide-spread, false impression concerning the Canadian Government's relations with the C. N. R. V. O. WATTS...