Evening star. [volume], May 15, 1946, Page B-10, Image 33

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Park Service Regains
Highway Control at
National Airport
Control over the right of way of
the Mount Vernon Memorial park
way at National Airport has been
returned to the National Park Serv
ice. paving the wav for landscaping
and improvement of the thorough
fare, it was learned today.
An agreement, reached yesterday
at a meeting attended by Maj. U. S.
Grant III, chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission; Hervey F. Law, adminis
trator of the airport; Arthur E.
Demaray, associate director of the
National Park Service, and Harry
T. Thompson, assistant superintend
ent of National Capital parks, sets
aside a strip of land containing the
road ranging from 200 to 400 feet
wide from Gravelly Point, just north;
of the airport, to Daingerfield Is- j
land, just south of the airport.
Since the airfield was built land-!
scaping has remained at a stand-!
still. So have roadways improve
ments in certain sections, notably
Take My Word for It
By FRANK COLBY.
What's the Origin?
(Scrapbook Item.)
Mrs. C. W„ New Rochelle: Which
Is correct, "Rule the roost” or “Rule
the roast”? I contend the latter.
Answer: I have traced the ex
pression to the 1400s, when John
Skelton wrote: "He ruleth all the
roste.” In the 1500s John Heywood
wrote: "Rule the rost.”
In the second part of "King
Henry VI" Shakespeare spoke of
Suffolk as “* * * the ne^-made
duke that rules the roast,” Wash
ington Irving wrote: "His wife
rules the roast.” Jonson, Chapman,
Marston, Browning. Alexander
Smith and others also used the
‘‘roast” version.
A safe guess is that the original
expression was an allusion to a per
son in authority who literally con
trolled the food supply.
Merriam-Webster's lists "rule the
roost” as "* * * erroneously used
for 'rule the roast.” However,
“rule the roost” is so well estab
lished in American usage that it
has practically mads obsolete the
‘‘roast” version.
Therefore, “rules the roost” is an
apt. familiar and a far more de
scriptive expression than the older
and vaguer form. To hold that
“rule the roost" is “erroneous” is
splitting hairs.
Mrs. D. R, R, Oakland: Is there
a word which expresses "uncon
trollable lie-telling?” I don't mean
just a “line,” but the telling of lies
regardless of the risk of exposure.
Answer: One might use the word
mendacious, "given to falsehood.”
pronounced: men-DAY-shuss. It's!
from the Latin mendax. "a lie.” A
still stronger word could be coined:
mendacimania, pronounced: men
DASS-i-MAY'nee-uh. Conversely,
the dread of telling a lie could be
called: mendaciphobia. pronounced:
men-DASS-i-FOE-bee-uh.
My free. nontechnical pamphlet simpli-i
fles the troublesome irregular verba, such
as: sink, sank, sunk: see. saw. seen; take,
took, taken. Corrects such errors as "I:
seen. I taken. I done." etc. Send a
stamped, self-aadresred envelope to Frank
Colby, in care of The Star. Ask for VERB
pa mphlct.
(Copyright, Iflfti. the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
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in the vicinity of Four Mile Run.
where sinking land has caused some
bad dips in the pavement.
Mr. Thompson said it is planned
to repair this section and at the
same time seek funds to widen nar
row portions of the highway and
insert a center strip where none
now exists.
Return of the northern part of
Daingerfield Island, which now re
verts to park service control, he said,
paves the w-av for ultimate construc
tion of a dock for Washington area
sailing enthusiasts. Salvaged build-'
ing material already is available, he1
said, to construct a boathouse in the I
near future and use the estuary of
Four Mile Run as an anchorage.
The airport beacon will remain as
it is under a park permit, Mr.
Thompson explained.
The status of the airport section
of the highway, he said, has been
“nebulous" for a number of years.
Fortunately, he said, no one ever
attempted to test the authority of
park police patrolling this section of
the road. If some one had, he might
have had a good case, Mr. Thomp
son added.
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