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...quoted Philadelphia Purist Dr. Howard McClenahan correctly on p. 44 of TIME, Feb. 26, isn't there some question whether or not Princeton's ex-Dean Mac himself indulged in a solecism when he said: "Such grammatical mistakes are inexcusable...
Would not Purist Mac have been more pure, less "solecistic," even at the risk of being somewhat didactic, or even pedantic, had he said, ''Such errors in grammar are inexcusable...
...Mac has shown me your letter of February...
...explaining that he could not make the arrest because he had left the warrant in his office safe at the Capitol. Besides the warrant called for delivering Mr. MacCracken "forthwith" before the bar of the Senate and that was now impossible since the Senate was not in session. Mr. Mac-Cracken replied that he also was sorry but he felt that he was under arrest and could not leave. In fact he would have to spend the weekend. Then he turned to the young woman, dictated something. She asked him to raise his right hand and said, "Do you swear...
...managed to put up Mr. MacCracken for the night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from his unwelcome guest. For the remainder of the week-end the whereabouts of Sergeant and Mrs. Jurney became as uncertain as the whereabouts of Mr. MacCracken during the previous...