I'll give William Allen White this - of the available text on [1], I could only find one use of "very"[2] as an emphasiser which makes him somewhat of an outlie

I'll give William Allen White this - of the available text on [1], I could only find one use of "very"[2] as an emphasiser which makes him somewhat of an outlier in the prescriptivist world (following his own advice.) [1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Allen_White https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Allen_White [2] "It is a very important factor that he must weigh soberly ..."