THE ART OF CONVERSATION
Hostesses who have dedicated themselves recently to the task of reviving the art of conversation took to heart Lord Dunsany's appeal, made at the literary luncheon, at Grosvenor House to save the English adjectives states a writer in the London "Daily Telegraph."
Many well-known women ' have revolted against the fashionable abuse of adverbs such as "definitely" and "absolutely."
This distinguished writer deplored the misuse of nouns, which are taking the place of adjectives. He begged people to preserve "mysterious" and "luxurious" for posterity by introducing them in conversation, instead of speaking of "a mystery man" or "a luxury car."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 18
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103THE ART OF CONVERSATION Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 18
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