E. E. Cummings, On The Death Of Warren G. Harding, 1923

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The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.






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Warren G. Harding: Bad President! March 4, 1921 ? August 2, 1923, one term. With Harding, who is widely considered the worst U.S. President of all the U.S. Presidents (well, yeah, until Bush, Jr.) it was all about a promise of ?A Return to ... Or as E.E. Cummings put it, announcing Harding's death: "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead." Aside from his struggles with English, Harding was apparently very ...
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Everyone has their favourite for this category, but few have ever heard of Warren G. Harding. With the apparent exception of Libertarian scholars, who rank him among the best of US Presidents, Democrat and Republican scholars consistently ... Harding had run on a campaign promising a "Return to Normalcy". Harding's gaffes were common and so unique that critic H.L. Mencken had called his pattern of speech, "Gamalielese". Upon Harding's death, poet E.E. Cummings wrote, ...
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Warren G. Harding twenty-ninth President of the United States
[20] Upon Harding's death, poet EE Cummings said "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead."[19] Some suggest Harding had a form of aphasia.[21] Memorials ...
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(Mencken, HL When Harding died, poet EE Cummings said ?The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.? (Quotations of Mencken and Cummings taken from Warren G. ...


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