Word: emptor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caveat Emptor. In Lubbock, Texas, Detectives Jack Hunnicutt and Claude Keaton spotted a man selling suspicious-looking bottles for $1 each to street-corner passersby, followed him to his cache, discovered an additional 30 bottles, gave up the investigation when they proved to contain 100% tap water...
...first time in its 29-year history, the Book-of-the-Month Club has sent out with a selection the dissenting opinion of one of its judges. Miss Amy Loveman, 73, an editor of the Saturday Review, offers an outright caveat emptor; Robert Ruark's new novel is, she says, "shocking...
...Caveat Emptor...
Aside from its mere excellence, The Paris Review's main attraction for the Harvard audience will be its air of being a literary Alumni Bulletin, for its masthead is sprinkled with names that of late graced the Advocate, the 'Poon, and (caveat emptor!), the Yale Daily News. Its editor and chief backer, George A. Plimpton, headed the Lampoon four years ago, its managing editor, Thomas Guinzburg, held the same position at the Yalie Daily in 1950, while Peter Matthiessen, the fiction editor, recently taught creative writing in New Haven. Harold Humes and Thomas Spang of the business staff are local...