Word: antiquarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...
Though Stravinsky went Bachwards, it is doubtful whether Johann Sebastian would recognize, or relish, the result. For Stravinsky does not write antiquarian music : he ruffles the calm of his counterpoint with eruptive rhythm and dissonance. It was not the kind of music to excite the Stravinsky cult that had cheered Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring; and it became fashionable in the '20s to say that the fire in the Stravinsky furnace burned out before World War I. It is not so fashionable to say that now: in recent years even some hostile critics concede that Stravinsky...
...first, the digging went well enough. Then the archeologists were proved right. An excavation a city block square near the railway station opened up an antiquarian's gold mine. It included a palace (probably Faustina's), public baths (with fixtures for hot & cold water), and the antique remains of bordellos...
...only copy of the first issue (in London's Public Record Office) Editor Monaghan carefully copies the writing style (including its heavy use of italics for emphasis) and does his best to get the printers to imitate typography. The first four-page number had its share of antiquarian whimsy (the Publisher regrets "his Inability to satisfy the Complaints of several of the original Subscribers . . . who say that they have not yet received their Copies. . . . The previous Editor . . . did not leave us a complete list of Subscribers"). But Monaghan was more interested in sounding off on such contemporary matters...
Whenever they could spare the time, the brothers waded out at low tide to dig in the gluey brown mud. In 1937, they found three planks which looked old enough for any antiquarian. Between the ebb & flood, the toilers of the Humber dug like inspired muskrats, building a mud wall to protect their find from being washed away by the currents. More planks appeared. Maybe it was a boat? By Jove, it was a boat...