Word: infinitum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naming names, there are Ransome of Beverly, Miscuraca of Gloucester, Murphy of Newton, and others ad infinitum. There is a fellow named Driscoll, who plays end for Dedham. This latter gent has been knocked out cold in practically every game he plays. They tape him up, and he goes in to mess up the opponents' backfield again. He might look good against Columbia. He might look good against Army, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, and all the other delorous names on the Harvard football schedule...
...chanteuse in this delightful den is of course a beautiful Gallie hawkshaw, with orders to help Powell out in every way possible. Powell joins the foreign legion, battles the native revolutionaries (the same seamy Oriental, crowd who were cut down in "Wake Island", "Bataan", "Air Force" and infinitum) gets captured, escapes, locates the evil Nazi (left over from "A Yank in the R.A.F." "Crash Dive", and "Action in the North Atlantic") and finally lands the dame. The whole affair rises to a glorious climax when Powell returns in triumph to his Nebraska hay farm...
...bone of any reader. It is a collection of 71 short articles, some of which appeared in print almost two decades ago, and it covers a vast expanse of human experience--pigeons, hiccoughs, botany exams, poker, bisons, thunderstorms, truffle poisoning, colds, culture, love in Hollywood, phobias, Schistosomiasis, etc., ad infinitum...
...remind me of a man." B: "What man?" A: "The man with the power." B: "What power?" A: "The power of who-do." B: "Who-do?" A: "You do!" B: "Do what?" A: "Remind me of a man." B: "What man?" . . . And so on, ad infinitum...
...they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum. One office boy does nothing but track down lost people (somebody's office in TIME gets moved every...