Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is something another national weekly (the ? ?*) will not do. Some time since, in answer to a correspondent somewhere in Iowa, this periodical stated: "Tenderfeet is wrong; the proper plural of Tenderfoot is Tenderfoots...
...Creed Was Singular, His Wives Plural The Life. Bulrushes. Long after, it was "remembered" that the heavens had resounded slightly and that a star had twinkled on June 1, 1801, when Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt. Similar signals of divine pleasure are unrecorded for subsequent years when the indigent Young family drifted about western New York farms. The boy Brigham chopped, plowed, dug, sowed, lucky if in pants, seldom shod...
...takes, for example, many good fiddlers to make a great one. The Flonzaleys play excellently well, yet if the alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural be equal to a certain famed singular. Recently, that singular got off a boat. He, Fritz Kreisler, "World's Greatest Violinist," had come to the U. S. for a concert tour...
Final debate on the bill passed off without untoward incident. On a motion supported by several Fascist Deputies representing workmen, a provision for plural voting for certain classes of men was deleted. The objection to this section of the bill was that its effect would be to reduce the suffrage of the workingmen...
...Straton were to show logically why monogamy is preferable to a system of plural marriages, or for what reasons he has adopted his conception of God, there could be no quarrel with his methods. The mistakes of rational beings must be attacked with reason, not with dogmatism. The conviction grows that a religious attitude that stubbornly refuses to face the facts of a new social order can hope for few converts in an age of scientific progress. The present generation is no whit less interested in religion than the age of Calvin, but it cannot countenance a religious attitude which...