Word: juiceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride." William James at least had a style, the lack of which suggests an organic failing in his disciple. Philosopher Santayana preserves a sense of beauty, but is at once exotic and provincial...
...Juiceless grapefruit, absorbless shock absorbers, and ageless glands are among the most successful past demonstrations of this kind. And now science claims to be on the eve of discovering how to make gold. Alchemy in all its glory never advanced beyond this stage. As a pretension, therefore, this announcement will be flouted by the "Society" until gold is actually produced from quicksilver...