Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — WORD THAT'LL NOT BE MISSED. [ARTICLE]

WORD THAT'LL NOT BE MISSED.

Mr. Bkfmmerton Rejoices Over Passlag of Overwork "Gruelling." “Wo tart see so often dost in print," said Mr. fMnmerton, “the word ’gruelling,* and I am glad of tat, tor to tell you the fiatfooted tooth I had begun to tire of reading about ’giasllfiig contests* for eupre* maey between two fleet runners ot two pugs pounding each other's face ar between taro men rowtag sr ptap' tag testate. “In fact gruelling had began, as you might say, to pall on me just as rancous did, not so Jong ago. Don’t you remember that there was a time when no writer ever failed to describe some one ot his charaoters as speaking in a rancous voice? “tastttaty rancous came to be pataM to tte so that it would prejudice me against a whole book to find tat word in it, and then happily anthorn put that word aside. “But there seems to be always in use, some word that is sorely overworked. It was a good word maybe crtgintfly and It catches many tansy- tad then they wear it thread-* been <dd, decrepit, till the very sight es it wearies. “task a word had grueHing come to be. You could lead of scarce]® any trial of strength or speed without finding that it had been a 'gnctUng contest,' or tat It had had a 'gruel' tag finish*; they were all gruelling In some way; but most gruelling of all to the reader, it seems to me. “But now gnudfing has goue out of fashion, ft has been put away along with mucous and with our once an toe ftaaflter dull thud and other much overworked words and phrases.”— New York Bun.