Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1913 — "Fierce." [ARTICLE]

"Fierce."

A Cleveland man who makes a practice of choosing his words with care, a practice which he has endeavored into the family circle, made a ‘memorandum of the misused words uttered by his son and daughter during a recent breakfast. Here 1b the result: Elegant, nineteen times. Awful, eleven times. Dandy, six times. Pierce, four times. Great, two times. When the meal was over the head of the household called the family around him in the library and gravA ly read the totals to them. “Gee, that’s fierce!” said the son. "Isn’t it awful!” Bald the daughter. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.