Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — OWED TO IMMORTAL BARD [ARTICLE]

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Phrases That Have Forever Enriched the English Language Traced tq ’ Shakespeare. How much we owe to Shakespeare in the daily small change of our colloquial speech will surprise one who has never thought on the size of the debt. The Dial (Chicago) comments on a list of these phrases collected by Mr. Frank J. Wilstach, in the interest of Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in their Shakespearian repertory: “His list, which we have not verified, includes the following: Bag and baggage, dead as a door nail, proud of one’s humility, hit or mias, lqve is blind, selling for a song, wide world, cut capers, fast and loose, unconsidered trifles, westward ho, familiarity breeds contempt, patching up excuses, misery makes strange bedfellows, to boot, short and loe® of it, dancing attendance, getting even (in revenge), birds of a feather, that’s flat, rag-tag, Greek to me, send one packing, as the day is long, packing a jury, motherwit, kill with kindness, mum, Ul wind that blows no good, wild-koose chase, scarecrow, luggage, row of pins, give and take, sold, yoilr cake. 43 dough. To ( ' almost any reader of this list there will at once occur numerous expressions that claim a place beside those enumerated, as, for instance, ‘to the manner born,’ ‘more ‘‘honored In the breach than the observance,’ *a sea of troubles,’ ‘that way madness lies.’ ’’