Word: datedness
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The last letter the Geisman family received was from Bataan, dated Feb. 20, saying only: "At times . . . the environment is not quite so pleasing. ..."
Courts. In White Plains, N.Y., a divorce court judge declared a mistrial after learning that the foreman of the jury had dated the woman defendant the night before. In Queens, L.I., a woman member of a jury that had just convicted a man & wife of petty larceny gave the couple...
The result of Editor Mencken's 25 years of "literary scavenging," this is one of the rare books that deserve the well-worn greeting "Here at last." No greater nor more useful than Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Burton Stevenson's Home Book of Quotations, its 1...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance...
The dubbed-in narrative is as simple as its author's pantomime (e.g., "With cheerful optimism our little Columbus descended into the vast uncharted waste-then stopped, stepped, slipped and slid"). It kids the stylized exaggerations of Big Jim, a notable heavy, by referring to him as "the noble...