Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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If the First Trader winks appreciatively, slaps his thighs, it is a Knowing Joke. But if, new to his business, he smiles gratefully and proceeds to buy Alaska Juneau, it becomes a Practical Joke. In either case, it is a huge success.
Quite as Wet at heart but not by record is Indiana's small-eyed James E. Watson, chairman of the redoubtable Committee on Committees, whose claims to leadership will be that he was Republican Whip (assistant leader) under the Lodge regime and that he is undoubtedly one of the...
* Except Jack Kearns, whilom manager of Pugilist Jack Dempsey, who, knowing nothing of the theatre, was persuaded by a friend to buy two tickets for the show a fortnight ago, was one of an audience of 20 persons, was laughed at for his ignorance by many a Broadwayfaring friend.
That exception is the fact that Professor Albert Abraham Michelson of the University of Chicago has very accurately calculated the speed of light. It travels 186,000 miles a second. That figure, Professor Michelson said at Washington last week, was not more than one mile from exactness. And now scientists...
Thirty-two also is Jewish Greenblatt. Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson...