VAIN THINGS
Sir,-I am perturbed at the growing use of two phrases. One is "a good thing," the other is "a bad thing." On Monday night, February 13, from 2YA Welling-
ton, at 8.20, when a team of conversationalists appeared in Let’s Talk It Over, these phrases occurred, it seemed to me, several times. I would like to enter a plea for the exclusion of these expréssions. They are A Bad Thing.
L.W.
E.
(New Plymouth).
(This usage has been growing for a long time-since the Roman Conquest, according to those indefatigable antiquarians, Sellar and Yeatman.-Ed. ) »
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 5
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96VAIN THINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 5
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