Word: gert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgian-born Dr. George Calingaert (pronounced Kale-in-gert) of Ethyl Gasoline Corp. turned up with a discovery which sounded abstruse to laymen but which his colleagues hailed as "fundamental" and "revolutionary." The discovery: that certain closely related organic compounds will react with one another (i.e., form new compounds) when nudged by simple catalysts (chemical activators) at ordinary temperatures. Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures. These strongarm methods, even when successful, are wasteful. In the Calingaert...
...STATUES ARE PUNK . . ." I'm acquainted with Gert and with Ein And a great many others named Stein But this sculptor called Ed, Is he living or dead? Or did somebody garble a line? GODFREY HOPKINS New York City A child of error and perversity, Ed Stein was a non-existent character who appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course...
...like the family Stein, There is Gert, there is Ed, there is Ein; Cert's poems are bunk, Ed's statues are punk, And nobody understands...
...been hardy enough to read her in the original (and to some of those) she has the reputation of a pure nonsense writer. To the man-in-the-street, she is the synonym for what Critic Max Eastman calls "the cult of unintelligibility." In man-in-the-street lingo, "Gert's poems are bunk...