Yet, if one person can secure personal profit from public possessions, why not more people? We deplore this private ownership of what should be universal utilities but if other people won't play the communistic game, how can we? Besides, there are a few words we should like to mono-police. We hasten to stake out 2 claim on "interesting" before the mob can beat us to it. If one and only one writer used this useful but sadly over-worked adjective, how distinctive would be his style! Being deprived of the use of their natural inheritance publicists would be forced to invent a synonym and in the long run the world would gain.
A brand new word, or at least an old word in a new use! How incomparably superior to a new styled frock! With what inward quakings but outward assurance we first spoke of a "hectic day" or an "intriguing hat Eyebrows were raised at first, puzzled frowns appeared, but the new phrases spread with the rapidity of the banana slogan. It was fame to have introduced the new shiboleth, but what glory to have retained its exclusive use!
We do not wonder that apt-phrase makers should wish to gépyvight their advertising bon/ mots so that it should be impossible to think of "that sinking feeling" without its concomitant Bovril. of "obeying that impulse'? without subscribing to "Life" or "just know she wears them" without recognizing MacCallum's hosiery: but we still fecal aggrieved that any one should have the right to snatch a word right straight out of the dictionary,—the more especially as there are two uses of the word and only one is designated as "for trade mark purposes only." Perhaps some day if this word-robbery continues we shall be brave enough to take a stand against it and go to prison for our principles, but for the present we are taking the roundabout way of the synonym.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.