Word: ferreter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though I were sitting...
...find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy "are afraid of the warm-hearted irresponsibility of their lay constituents-perhaps also of their own better natures." It was to ferret out the cause of denominational failure to cooperate that Mr. Douglass made his search into antipathies. Besides discovering the above scale of Protestant general aversions, he found that Protestants would just as soon marry Roman Catholics as Jews, but preferred Jewish or Catholic spouses to Mormons, atheists, Buddhists or Mohammedans. However...
After the books are closed and Mr. Littman goes into an automobileless retirement, the riding equipment department, bought by a director, will be run under the name Sickles, Inc. But the few customers of the commercial harness departments will have to ferret out other manufacturers, or else go to the mail order houses, still selling many a horsey thing, perhaps a major factor in the downfall of J. B. Sickles...
Library to ferret among reports sent to Rome by 16th Century Spanish priests on Mayan culture. Dawes-backed, Professor Clark hopes to find references to the "lost continent" of Atlantis in the documents...
Lawyers. Students of Dishonesty have recently had an absorbing spectacle in New York City, where the blight has been found to pervade even the courts which are supposed to ferret it out. An investigation of Magistrates' Courts, following upon a curious dinner attended by notable criminals and given to City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale (TIME, Jan. 6), has led to an expose of extensive, sly malpractice. Sample: Last week one Joseph Wolf man was apprehended playing checkers in a Jersey City Y. M. C. A. For four years he has appeared in Manhattan courts, a bogus lawyer who declared...