Word: spencerian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Handwriting," said she, "has almost always expressed the age in which it was practiced. In Colonial days, when travel was cumbersome ... the writing was cumbersome and inartistic. Jumping about 100 years, in the middle of the Victorian period Spencerian writing became the vogue...
...realized that "we are not starting this study altogether in the dark. Some very promising beginnings have been made in other universities." But the Spencerian method is potentially the most scorchingly abusive or sweetly flattering inquisition that an anxious faculty has ever faced...
...urchins who pursed small mouths and whistled or gargled the words of his wan fables, a somewhat severe shade, one to be kept properly prisoned in the dusty darkness of a schoolroom desk. The urchins, now grown into babbitts or clowns or bigwigs, sang their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials into fence rails or the bark of a tree. The songs they...
...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...
...University School has lost two of the six games they have had this season, but in the others have been very successful. They lost to Central High 7 to 13, and to East High 0 to 20 and defeated Cleveland Heights 12 to 0, Spencerian Business College 19 to 9, Geneva 26 to 13 and Lakewood High...