Word: bandersnatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spry as a bandersnatch, the Red Dean retorted: ". . . It is important to remember that I was appointed successively to two dignified positions in the Anglican Church, first as Dean of Manchester [1924], and then as Dean of Canterbury [1931], by a Socialist Prime Minister*, and was appointed precisely because I had long urged that Socialism was, in my view, not only scientific but the logical consequence in our age of Christian morality...
Last week, from nonscientific Dublin, of all places, came news of a man who not only understands Einstein, but has bounded like a bandersnatch far ahead (he says) into the hazy, electromagnetic infinite. Austrian-born Nobel Prizewinner Erwin Schrödinger, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, claims to have generalized still further Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. If so, he has scored a scientific grand slam: mathematical physicists (including Einstein himself) have been trying to do this, without success, for the last 30 years...
...Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch...
Inside OCD's brier patch Fiorello LaGuardia was bounding around like a snarled-up bandersnatch, uttering encouraging yells, while the briers made rips in his reputation. Butch himself admitted that he might be attempting too much, trying to run New York City and OCD all at once. A lot of people were sure of it -the House of Representatives, for one lot. Flatly rejecting the Senate's liberal plan to give OCD unlimited funds, the House voted to appropriate $100,000,000 but to put the Army in charge of spending it. For Butch, not a nickel...
Bucks County Playhouse really waited for was to hear mute Harpo speak and play himself (Banjo). In the third act they were rewarded by the bandersnatch entrance of Harpo, minus his red fright-wig but plus a violent shirt with enormous purple and red flowers. Wildly ogling the indulgent audience, he plucked all the Harpo strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play...