PLEA FOR CULTURE.
“SLIPSHOD ENGLISH.” “These are days of slipshod English, American slang, journalese, rabid and sensational slogans and screaming capital letters ”, saul Mr P. H. Beber- • - T Eyon, headmaster of Rugby School, lr l .dress to the Science Congress at Norwich. There is no surer safeguard against he decay of taste, Mr Lyon said, than teranco wel ' stored with beautiful ut“LL. is a ,, C| ', l€ei world,” said the fnnno 01 ’. i " dlen ~n sleek silky-voiced S e and jazz lizard—the crooner—novinn C ' ll \ etl v! te Quatrains of noxious slush and forthwith be accept7 ho,e rnanly generation, while . gt eat creators of immortal verse i king m vain.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 8
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109PLEA FOR CULTURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 8
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