Word: datedness
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Vicki Baum, author of glossy, sexy novels about fashionable internationals (Grand Hotel), denounced her newest, Once in Vienna, as her first attempt, written at the age of 15: ". . . I never authorized the publication . . . or the title of this adolescent, utterly dated and ridiculous sin of my early youth."
Poring over the original manuscript in the British Museum, Musicologist Manfred F. Bukofzer of the University of California discovered that the 19th-Century historians were guilty of some careless scholarship. They had accepted 1240 because it was the date of another section of the manuscript that included Sumer is icumen...
General George C. Marshall (in the Army & Navy Journal dated Dec. 7, 1944): "Before this statement is published, hostilities might have terminated in the European Theater."
Its political knees might still be arthritic, but Britain's senescent Liberal Party was halfway out of its club chair last week. Up in the border constituency of Berwick, famed Sir William Beveridge, the Liberals' greatest catch in years, had just wiped the hustings with his by-election...
Turnblad got off a bulletin over the A.P. domestic wire. Then the Honolulu teletype bucked and started again with the last line of the attack story, quoting Admiral Nimitz: "This communiqué, incidentally, is dated late June, 1592." Turnblad's whistle died. He fired a stop order after his...