Word: defunction
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...local-boy-who-made-good. Purpose: To top off his 50 years as a newspaper man (and boost his autobiography, The Education of an American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper...
...statement last night T. Dunstan Thompson '40, president of "The Harvard Monthly," denied a statement printed in yesterday's CRIMSON that the magazine was "defunct" and the bills sent to it were returned unopened...
...undergraduate publications yesterday fought desperately to keep the wolf from the door, one in vain, as financial disaster faced the Lampoon and the new defunct Monthly...
Over my semi-defunct body I grant you "triten" (line 6, p. 51, TIME, Sept. 5)-but for all our sakes, keep away from "stalen" while the Dies Committee is sitting...
...have been written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country is a simple chronicle that contrasts particularly with the excitable, brooding record of Louis Adamic...