Word: grammarian
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...settled Hoti's business-let it be!-Properly based Oun- Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De . . . This man decided not to Live but Know- . . . Leave him-still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying." Robert Browning, A Grammarian's Funeral...
...death of such a grammarian as Browning wrote of was reported last week from London (where the news had been picked up from Denmark's Nazi-controlled Kalundborg radio). On April 30 death had come to 82-year-old Jens Otto Harry Jespersen after an operation in Roskilde's hospital. In this handsome Danish giant of scholarship, English grammar lost its greatest living historian, Europe an outstanding humanist...
...Brigadier General Robert Candee, 50. is chief of Ground Air Support, reads Ruskin before breakfast, is an expert grammarian, is often called "poker face." Officers jump when he speaks, learn well when he teaches his ground-air coordination specialty. ^Bespectacled Major General Walter...
...Goldwyn's hired hands have worked hard to give us a new slant on the old hick-meets-city-girl situation. This version has Gary Cooper as a musty grammarian who goes to the masses in search of live vernacular. Inevitably, he meets Barbara Stanwyck, who is a night-club warbler with Gene Krupa's orchestra. She talks a Hollywoodish brand of slang that will leave even the boys from Lindy's open-mouthed...
...already have had grey hair and beard, for I cannot remember him otherwise. He was as miraculous physically as intellectually; for at a short distance he looked to be 60 years old and during the next 50 years remained exactly the same in face, figure, and activity. Browning's "Grammarian's Funeral" I have always called the Battle Hyman of Phi Beta Kappa; but whereas that Grammarian sacrificed his health and good looks, Kittredge, who never took part in games or in any form of physical recreation, who ate and drank what he pleased, smoked 20 cigars daily and nightly...