Word: eeriest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hands. One of the eeriest features of television commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...
...short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...
...artists delicately tuned their queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...Eeriest paradox of all was Wall Street. A capital-goods boom was under way with almost no help at all from private investment. The corporate securities markets did $1,666,805,000 of refundings during eleven months of 1940, but raised only $660,799,000 of new money. As the year ended, Wall Street, its best barometer, was huddled in the storm cellar with Confidence...