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...this suffix down, any number can play-and do. A recent novel speaks of drinkingness (more pleasurable than drunkenness). One Texas preacher is currently using everything from thereness and scatteredness to gatheredness-which suggests that he owes a debt to togetherness, used in the 1920s by Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead long before Madison Avenue took it over. Another early ness-builder was Mr. Justice Holmes, who defended his decisions by saying: "I do accept a rough equation between isness and oughtness." Teacher Foote has spotted the malpractice as far back as a rare 16th century book that describes Fingal...
...many ways, Shut Up, He Explained is a curious book. For a generation to which Lardner is largely a distant figure of the 1920s (he died in 1933), familiar chiefly through textbooks and a few anthologies, it does not do full justice to the lasting appeal of the great American humorist. Nor is it likely to satisfy the Lardner buff (there are still a great many), who likes to sample his Lardneriana over the wide range offered by a box of Mother's Day chocolates. When Lardner was good, he was very, very good; when...
...samples-on world's fairs dating back to the first one in London's Crystal Palace in 1851. Another of his packrat collections of oddities inspired his recent book, The Best Remaining Seats (TIME, Dec. 8, 1961). a recall of the gilded movie palaces of the 1920s...
...Stop? Mme. Piccard was understandably startled by her husband's easy acquiescence. All through the 1920s Auguste had taught mechanical engineering at the University of Brussels, but his first love was always the free-ballooning he did with his twin brother Jean. After years of practice in conventional balloons, the tall, scrawny professor with his outlandish head of wispy white hair, designed his own gasbag, his own spherical, airtight gondola, squeezed into the risky contraption one morning in 1931 and climbed 51,775 ft. over Augsburg, Bavaria-almost two miles higher than any airplane had yet flown. Just...
...Newcastle. After wading through the entries in a jingle contest pushing Columbia Pictures' Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Donnelley awarded one of the grand prizes-a minor part in Columbia's forthcoming Diamond Head-to Palm Springs Housewife Lillian Kenaston, 58, better known to middle-aged Americans as 1920s Movie Heroine Billie Dove...