Word: cetera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Executive Secretary of the Institute estimates the membership for this year as over 200 persons. This number is made up of College Presidents and professors, officers of the army and navy, lawyers, business men, leaders of, women's clubs, lecturers, publicists, et cetera...
...Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village−studio-parties− pseudo-intellectuals whose amatory affairs are as tangled as a pile of jackstraws−burbles about Art−neuroses and inhibitions−take-offs on prominent Village characters, et cetera, et cetera. All well enough done−with tact, occasional wit and a sense of construction. The trouble with it is that the author succeeds in making that kind of thing seem so completely unimportant that one gets wondering why the book should have been written at all. Still...
...returned imitations. Six fake antique statues had been sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Twenty per cent of the Gothic statuary in the Metropolitan was not bona fide. A prominent New York and Paris dealer made a practice of selling clever forgeries to " These dirty Americans," et cetera, et cetera...
...thus indulging his latest hobby. He acted for all the world like a schoolboy who has just started for his summer vacation, and affirmed that he was enjoying himself. He will not return to England until the end of June. Meanwhile, the author of Fortitude, The Cathedral, Jeremy, et cetera, et cetera, will en joy himself some more...
...unspectacular contribution; The Adding Machine, with its satire, gloom and power; tangled recollections of a score of interesting things-the robots-James Barton's dancing-the lace-ballet in the Follies-the Texas Nightingale-the war scene in The Insect Comedy - Stanislavsky - the unfortunate " 49ers "-Cyril Maude -et cetera. At all events it was a rich and entertaining feast...