Word: footless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about April 1, to rove for the Times wherever he chooses for as long as he chooses. Fourteen years of alert, thoroughgoing work in Russia have made him the Times' most valuable foreign correspondent, but hard Muscovite winters and office routine have frayed his nerves, pained his footless leg. His successor will be able Harold Norman Dennv, longtime TIME...
College basketball produces no national champion. A winter sport which in some parts of the U. S. amounts to a seasonal hysteria, it is played almost entirely within regional leagues. The argument of each league that it has the best team in the land is more footless than most such controversies, since the strongest teams play on courts of different sizes under rules differently interpreted...
...Significance. That such a convinced prophet of footless negation can find a publisher, even in Manhattan, may be a sign that the U. S., like Pauline Athens, has an altar ready for the Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort...