Warren G. Harding

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is a man who wrote simple declarative sentences with seven grammatical errors.

(of Warren G. Harding) The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors, is dead.

is a politician who writes the worst English one has ever encountered, reminding one of a string of wet sponges: it reminds one of tattered washing on the line: it reminds one of stale bean soup, of college yells.

(of Warren G. Harding) He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells. of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

is a tin-horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor.

(of Warren G. Harding) A tin-horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor.

Harding was not a bad man. He was just a slob.

is a man who writes the worst English that you have ever encountered. It reminds of a string of wet sponges; it reminds of tattered washing on the line; it reminds of stale bean soup, of dogs barking through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of dogs barking through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

is not a man with either the experience or the intellectual quality that the position needed.

He was not a man with either the experience or the intellectual quality that the position needed.

is not fit for this office and never should have been here.

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

is a man whose speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

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