Word: cogitationes
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* Last week, after weeks of cogitation, OPA forbade liquor dealers to use the word "gin" for the new cane-base, shellac-scented cocktail base now pouring into the U.S. from the Caribbean. The official, denatured title from now on: "Distilled spirits made from cane products and favored with aromatics."
Rulers in Chains? The Germans began to manufacture the issue last month. They declared that British commandos had bound a few German prisoners taken in a minor raid on the Channel Islands. The Germans then announced that British and Canadian prisoners taken at Dieppe would be chained in retaliation. After...
When 76-year-old "Papa" Deibler, who as Monsieur de Paris had pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career, died last February, his 80-year-old Uncle Léopold Desfour-neaux was appointed temporary successor. Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux lacked his nephew'...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel...
Sentence (1), stating that young novelists, because permanent art is arduous, angle after contemporary applause, is simple in meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire...