Approves the “style” of nation-wide.
My colleagues fall for it, but I’d
Be damned if I’d use nation-wide.
It gets my goat, and more beside,
That phrase atrocious, nation-wide.
Abomination double-dyed,
Away, outrageous “nation-wide”!
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]Speaking of local color, B. Humphries Brown and Bonnie Blue were wedded in Indianapolis.
Married, in Evansville, Ind., Ellis Shears and Golden Lamb. Something might be added about wool-gathering.
Embarrassed by the riches of modern literature at our elbow, we took refuge in Jane Austen, and re-read “Mansfield Park,” marvelling again at its freshness. They who hold that Mark Twain was not a humorist, or that he was at best an incomplete humorist, have an argument in his lack of appreciation of Jane Austen.