Word: doodad
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...Bats Fly. A doodad for ships sounding the ocean bottom is the echo-recorder, which shoots down supersonic waves (sound of higher pitch than the human ear can hear), gauges the depth by the time it takes the waves to bounce back to the surface. The same principle enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from...
There he lives in two remodeled stables which express his character. Their antique furniture is sober, solid, sleek. The décor is dashing-glass bricks instead of windows, great expanses of mirror, an occasional ultramodern doodad. Evidence of Whalen the businessman is tactfully absent. But Whalen the civic leader shows in prints of old New York, Whalen the horseman in a framed blue-ribbon, Whalen the family man in a group shot of his attractive wife and three children. And the gadgets display the Whalen flair for imaginative showmanship. Each step in one flight of stairs is a drawer...
Fact is, Mr. Ovendale, we don't know just what name to use when we're a-talkin' about the King of England. Ever sence he got ashamed of his family name durin' the War an' changed it, we're all of a doodad to find a handle fer him. But last Sunday after Bible-class I got next to some kahlege kids an' asked them fer a proper, respectful title that TIME magazine could use in referrin' to George V, an' we thunk an' thunk fer a long time...