“I need an adjective.”
Leonard B. Stern
more infosource: Mad Libs was first conceived in 1953, when Stern was writing a script for The Honeymooners and needed an adjective: “Leonard B. Stern, Creator of Mad Libs, Dies at 88,” by Margalit Fox, The New York Times, June 9, 2011.
category: adjective, grammar, Mad Libs, publishing, word game
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“The open-ended dash, breathless, was her pause of choice, dashes in all sizes and shapes: short, long, slant, each prying the door ajar. Nouns stand at attention, capitalized and substantive.”
Brenda Wineapple
more infosource: description of Emily Dickinson’s writing, in White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York: Anchor Books, 2009), 75.
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category: Emily Dickinson, grammar, punctuation, writing
medium: Nonfiction
“I have become an adjective. There is something called a ‘Rovian’ style of campaigning, and it’s meant as an insult.”
Karl Rove
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