Word: adding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mann's chief characteristic stands in his own path. He has carried local colour to its reductio ad absurdam. The significance of the theme is lost in pages and pages of interesting but unnecessary detail. Herr Mann is probably assured of literary immortality. But it is sad that he should survive, not as a great mind, not as a great artist, but as a source-book for future historians...
...Your chance to meet a glorious ad-venturer," sang out an advertisement of R. H. Macy's department store, Manhattan, last week. The "amazing young man" on exhibition was not, of course, Captain Lindbergh; but was Richard Halliburton, engaged in autographing his athletic travel-book, The Glorious Adventure (TIME...
...Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate as a male. If 60% are feminine...
...French American bankers and unions cooperation. Ad...
...dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces in such manner that one's opponent is physically unable to make a move (calomel and dynamite to the contrary, not withstanding), etc., etc. ad nauseam. Some of the innocents think that they should, regardless, set up a strong position in the centre, or that under no circumstances should they break their own king row. . . . DR. DONALD M. GILDERSLEEVE...