Jim Baumann
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Is that a bowl of galosh you're eating?Jul 25, 2020 3:00 pm - “That's a hansom cab,” you might tell your driver. And he or she might doff a top hat and thank you for your kind words. But is that necessarily a compliment? A hansom c...
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Good News Sunday: Single parents find support in online community during pandemicJul 19, 2020 7:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published by the Daily Herald during the previous week: For soon-to-be 12-year-o...
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Grammar Moses: If I were a Pip, that would be a pip!Jul 18, 2020 1:00 am - In response to last weekend's column on advertising typos, astute reader and consumer Trey Higgins sent me another. For fear of offending the pizza gods - and the purvey...
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Grammar Moses: Now with sex levels of spiciness!Jul 11, 2020 1:00 am - I apologize for holding onto this information past the point in which you could take advantage of it, but it came over the transom after I put last weekend's column to b...
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Good News Sunday: Palatine teen creates backyard Wrigley FieldJul 05, 2020 5:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published by the Daily Herald during the previous week: While Major League Baseb...
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Grammar Moses: This column not filmed before a live studio audienceJul 04, 2020 1:00 am - Eleanor Wasielewski has a bone to pick with Lucille Ball. Well, Desi Arnaz. "I Love Lucy" was the first television show to be filmed "before a live studio audience." Sh...
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Grammar Moses: Jamborees of jaguars and awkward analogiesJun 27, 2020 1:00 am - My wife and I were puttering around the back roads recently in her Toyota RAV4, and every time we would get to a stoplight a sexy, white Jaguar F-Type coupe that sounded...
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Policy Corner: Why we decided to capitalize the B in 'Black'Jun 26, 2020 1:00 am - In mid-June the Daily Herald adopted a change in its style that now capitalizes the B in "Black" to identify a people of shared identity. We've fielded a few letters fro...
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Grammar Moses: Is 'from' better than 'than'?Jun 13, 2020 1:00 am - If I could be allergic to certain ill-conceived word combinations, well, I'd never be able to leave the house. The list is too long. I'm sure because you're reading this...
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Grammar Moses: For the want of a periodJun 06, 2020 1:00 am - The signs, in bold white letters on a red background in the town of Ludlow in Shropshire, England, read: COVID 19 NO PARKING ENFORCEMENT IN O...