Word: farrago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest play, the first of a trilogy in which, believe it or not, he evidently seeks to answer no less a question than: What is God? It is the dramatization of that inexplicable bewilderment that has befogged men from the first grey light of a primeval dawn. To the farrago of groping speculation that has entangled the ages, O'Neill has brought the confusion of his own technique in the theatre. It could scarcely be expected that the result would be clarity...
From the clergy came a wry farrago. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates at the Chapel of the Intercession called Jolter Barnes a smart-Alec. Dr. Lyman P. Powell at St. Margaret's remarked that Jolter Barnes confused front page publicity with ordered knowledge. Rabbi Nathan Krass at Temple Emanuel contended: "Science enhances the glory of God." Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral listed a score of great men in biology, anthropology, astronomy, surgery, pathology, who have been Catholic, religious...
...your issue of Nov. 12 under "Governors" you comment on Gov. George. W. P. Hunt of Arizona as follows: "Unique among all U. S. political executives is Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt.'' Then follows a farrago of inanities of personal description such as "once strong as an ox, now 69 and bald as a turtle," etc. and "No U. S. mustache is more famed than his. Once frowsy and walrusy, it is now smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor...
...your issue of Oct. 22 appears an article entitled "Faunce Out." This contains a farrago of insinuations and trivialities, many of them untrue. For example, Dr. Faunce appreciates a good cigar and keeps a box of one of the best brands always ready to enjoy with his friends. The appointment of Percy Marks was terminated before the publication of The Plastic Age. Neither Chinese nor Negroes are numerous at Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce...
When distinguished Editor James Louis Garvin had well perused this charge, he wrote: "In the whole farrago, there is not one grain, not one atom, not one little jot nor tincture of truth. No such stipulation exists. The American gentleman concerned is incapable of suggesting any thing like it. The King's subject concerned [Editor Garvin] is known to be among the last men alive to whom such a stipulation could be safely breathed...