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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
I'arveml Frtu Syndicate
A few weeks ago a court in Tacoma, Wash., cracked down on a local travel firm. It seems the outfit had sold memberships in its travel club, but had failed to deliver on the elegant services it had promised.
An inspired copy editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer provided a classic headline: “Tour allure a lie, court finds in travel club suit.” Beautiful.
Two readers in Tacoma sent me the clipping, which promptly went into the file labeled “Good Stuff.” It’s a skimpy file. Readers send me hundreds of Horrid Examples of bad grammar and worse syntax; I yearn for citations of an apt simile or a wellturned phrase. Please watch for bits of good writing in newspapers, magazines and current books. There is sound to be a lot of Good Stuff out here.
It turns up in headlines. Last Xugust, as the baseball strike got igly, the Birmingham (Ala.) News aptioned a story of discontent: “Most ans don’t care if they never come back.”
A Scripps-Howard correspondent filed a feature from Amsterdam on smoking in Europe. Smokers light up anywhere, even though some laws attempt to curb the nasty habit. France adopted a tough anti-smoking law last year, but it is rarely enforced. Reported the correspondent:
“Trendy Paris restaurants such as the Brasserie Lipp, favored by France’s caviar left, responded by putting the nonsmoking tables on the second floor — the social equivalent of Siberia.”
Caviar left! That’s the way to coin
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