These tantalizing stories and dozens more make this book a perfect addition to any library, as delightful for browsing as it is essential for reference.

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"Evans was a public skeptic of the forties and fifties and he wrote this book to prove that an awful lot of people are stupid and gullible and superstitious and not likely to take the scientifically enlightened opinions of their more ...

Lively and readable, this book provides clear answers to questions of grammar, word preferences, effective style, punctuation, idiomatic phrases, spelling and literally thousands of similar problems that arise frequently in the use of the ...