I did not know this about Roget. But I'm surely grateful pleased
appreciative
thankful for his lists.
What an interesting post. I will try to catch the book review on Cspan this weekend. Thanks.
The result of his therapy was not just a crutch for lazy writers, but a wheelchair. Not one of those wheelchairs that one has to grab the hind wheels and push, but one of those newfangled ones...oh, heck...what do they call them? I wish there was a book that would tell me what those newfangled motorized wheelchairs are called if I looked up
wheelchair.
Oh, well. He was a giant of words, on whose shoulders many journalists have sat and been inspired, aroused, excited, prompted, provoked, stimulated and stirred.