Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd, these learned men did not put on their togas haphazard, but allowed themselves to be draped by an expert. He, deft, threw one end of the toga over their left shoulder, allowing the point to hang down in front. The major remainder of the toga was then wound about the body, toward the right, and finally disposed in graceful folds about the right arm. Soon, like so many Caesars, the good doctors strode forth, paraded through Mantua, and grouped majestically while a statue of Virgil, famed Mantuan* was unveiled...
...eight weeks, then died. Nor do doctors yet know how to cure it. It is one of the small number of diseases, including cancer and rheumatic fever, of which the cause is still obscure, and because the cause remains hidden the proper mode of treatment must of necessity remain haphazard and the cure a matter more of chance than of science...
...hundredth part of their money transactions. In 1867 Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb left the Jewish community in Cincinnati where they had become prosperous commission men. They realized better than most men that the Civil War meant a change to U. S. civilization, that the railroads ?then grimy, haphazard affairs, spattered with tobacco juice?would become a great factor in that civilization. They went to Manhattan where Jay Gould (1836-92), James Fisk (1834-72) and Daniel Drew (1797-1879) were forcing from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) control of the Erie, and where Commodore Vanderbilt himself was forcing...
...young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer in a stable community...
However all this may be, the humor in the new issue of the Lampoon is of a high order. The pictorial representation of "face lifting in the good old days" surpassed its prototype in life. Best of all is the psychology chapter of "A Popular History of Knowledge". The haphazard selection of "one of the lower forms of life" is the best sample of humor of the irrepressible type since Mark Twain asserted that he was not superstitious, but he always did hate to sleep thirteen...