Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — A Stirring Effort. [ARTICLE]

A Stirring Effort.

“You say the orator plunged into his speech?” ~ ~ “That expresses the idea exactly. He wallowed in a sea of adjectives for 45 minutes and when he rose to the surface grammar sharps declared that the walls and ceiling of the auditorium were spattered with split infinitives.”