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The editors of Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage take glee in pointing out instances where even language mavens such as E.B. White violate their own rules on “correct” and “incorrect” usage.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Those Illiterates — Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott, and Ruskin: 2007
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She admits that the tweet she decided on Listening to E.B. White's Trumpet of the Swan with Daisy.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Pick a You, Any You: The Emotional Cost of Living Online Barbara 2011
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Renowned author E.B. White for children, Charlotte's Web; for college students, Elements of Style captured the point: "The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."
Jonathan Lewis: Are the Poor Capitalistically Unlucky? Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Renowned author E.B. White for children, Charlotte's Web; for college students, Elements of Style captured the point: "The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."
Jonathan Lewis: Are the Poor Capitalistically Unlucky? Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Mr. Sims seeks to discover how E.B. White, a longtime New Yorker editor, came to write the 1952 children's classic about how a word-spinning spider saves Wilbur the Pig from the butcher and teaches him the lessons of friendship.
Some Pig, Some Book Anthony Esolen 2011
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Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Peggy Orenstein once confessed that, while spending some glorious time with her little girl listening to E.B. White reading Trumpet of the Swan, a nasty thought intruded: How will I tweet this?
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Pick a You, Any You: The Emotional Cost of Living Online Barbara 2011
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Last October, Garth Williams's original drawing for the cover of E.B. White's 1952 book "Charlotte's Web" sold at Heritage Auctions for $155,350, five times its high estimate.
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She did not disappoint, and suggested her remarkable rejoinder to the classic E.B. White essay about New York City.
Charles R. Wolfe: In the City, We Cannot Live by Social Science Alone Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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Mr. Sims seeks to discover how E.B. White, a longtime New Yorker editor, came to write the 1952 children's classic about how a word-spinning spider saves Wilbur the Pig from the butcher and teaches him the lessons of friendship.
Some Pig, Some Book Anthony Esolen 2011
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She did not disappoint, and suggested her remarkable rejoinder to the classic E.B. White essay about New York City.
Charles R. Wolfe: In the City, We Cannot Live by Social Science Alone Charles R. Wolfe 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word E.B. White
"White, E(lwyn) B(rooks) 1899-1985. American writer and humorist who contributed essays, editorials, and parodies to the New Yorker. He also wrote children's books, including Charlotte's Web (1952), and revised a 1918 writing manual, The Elements of Style (1959)."
--American Heritage Dictionary
November 16, 2010