Word: anent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What with a suicide, a normal death, an abortion, an aristocratic nymphomaniac and a wig-fetishist of an elevator operator, The Pink Hotel might have rated a black mark in any Baedeker except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging...
Concerning Dr. Dock's theory anent stress imposed by sexual intercourse...
...Anent the crocodile tears of Mr. Wilson of Los Angeles: there are no Jim Crow tanks here guarding against the Negroes' escape to Los Angeles. KARL RAMSEY Memphis
...Anent Mr. David P. Leas' letter [about the five missionaries killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador-Feb. 13]: "Why go into Auca territory?" I answer in the words my husband wrote in his last letter to his parents: "Ours is to preach the gospel to every creature . . ." Mr. Leas is sure that the Lord must be interested in the Aucas "just as they are." God is interested in all mankind just as he is-so interested, in fact, that He sent His Son to die for him. The only trouble is that the Auca doesn't know...
...your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed. When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...