Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week his PM Philharmonic was emitting strange cacophonies. Of its instrumentalists, 26 had quit or been laid off in an economy drive, the remaining 200 were in uneasy confusion. Field denied persistent rumors that he had given Ingersoll until next fall to put the paper back into the black...
Editorially, the Pilot, official organ of the Boston archdiocese, wrung its hands: "G. Bromley Oxnam has to live with himself. Undoubtedly he says prayers before he retires at night. In these orisons, in his baring of soul before a God Who reads our innermost hearts, let the Bishop weigh his...
Democratic Tic. The Bavarian revolution that succeeded World War I had its own puzzles. Schoenberner was not one of the literati who suddenly felt a new and urgent need to join the proletariat. Nor did he have much respect for the Democratic Party, whose platform, he thought, matched the names...
"I give you this thought," said Baruch. "There should be a high court of commerce set up to which [all economic] disputes can be taken for adjudication in order that we may work out a program on the basis of the principles which made this country great. If this is...
British Author William Gerhardi once won the favor of a lady by telling the tale of a man who: 1) sliced off his nose while shaving; 2) dropped the razor, which cut off his big toe; 3) in his confusion switched the severed parts, so that ever afterward, whenever he...