Poor grammar not only makes you look stupid—it can get in the way of your career!

Even highly intelligent people with a lot of "horse sense" get mistaken for Big Dummies when they say things like this:

Hair-salon touts, eye-cream hucksters, and other species of urban vermin.

One of the subtle delights of this past year's Covid-19 lockdown is that it shooed away the commercial panhandlers who pester you in pedestrian thoroughfares.

(Originally published June 29, 2014)

Our very own Mr. Ian Stuart Dowdy of the Art Students League likes to tell the tale of how he was responsible for the death of an old lady he was supposed to be taking care of. Old Mrs. Voorhees-Rohr was often bedridden with a prolapsed colon and needed round-the-clock care. As no nurse or home-care-giver was available on a live-in basis (this was during the War), and the live-in maid did not wish to do this sort of work, Mrs. V-R had her attorney look for a young man or woman who could move into the spare bedroom down the hall.