High-Verbosity Prose
ROBERT L. DEAN · Chemical & Engineering News · 1951
WHEN I dropped into his office, the other day, Mr. Bernard Willder, president of Solecisms Unlimited, was looking through the window, absent-mindedly jangling a participle that was dangling from his watch chain. Not wanting to break the reverie of the man who has done so much to clutter science writing, I hesitated at the edge of the carpet. But he must have heard my step, for he swung around, greeting me warmly. "Come in, come in. I've been expecting you." "I didn't want to interrupt, sir," I said, shaking his hand. "I know you must be busy, what with preparations for the Diamond Jubilee Meeting and the World Chemical Conclave. But tell me, what do you think of my suggestion that you throw open your laboratories so that those who attend the September sessions can see solecisms synthesized?" "I'll buy it; I'll buy it," he said. "Matter of fact, I'm going to take you through ...