On: Replace the “very” in your sentence

[zimpenfish]

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

[2] "It is a very important factor that he must weigh soberly ..."