Word: automatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just put in a coin"). When the graft is on the point of being exposed by a Senate investigation, President Markham, broken-hearted by his followers' duplicity, commits suicide, thus saving his own good name and the Party...
Skeptics, marveling that they had been (permitted to read of this happening, took a vow never to order a sandwich in the Automat, reformed their former low opinion of the honesty of the U. S. press. "There is a big advertiser † gone," they said, wagging their heads...
...news is printed in any U. S. sheet which might give affront to the advertisers or possible advertisers of that sheet were shocked last week to see in at least two Manhattan newspapers an account which cast terrible aspersions upon that powerful dining-room incorporation, the Horn & Hardart ("Automat...
This item related how a woman, Katherine Puree by name, had entered an Automat, procured a sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree...
...spontaneity of a language of natural growth, it may find a field throughout western education. But if, as seems more likely, it is restored to the limbo of things unwanted and unused, the progenitors of this chimera will have to admit that an a priori language, like an automat-man, is feasible only in a rationalistic heaven or a mechanistic Utopia...