Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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So I think you might be interested in knowing a bit more about this issue and being assured that neither the cover nor the coverage was just a matter of luck. . . .
I think your comment upon Mr. Justice Frankfurter, in TIME, June 9, was sneering and untrue. The trouble with the young man who wrote it, as Artemus Ward said of some other people several years ago, "ain't ignorance, but knowing so much that ain't so."
Returned to Hollywood last week from a South Sea cruise on the steamer Monterey, slim, honey blonde Joan Fontaine told how she had seen, without knowing it, an appropriately serene "revolution" on the languorous French island of Tahiti.
It was recorded-to sell to her friends at $2.50 a copy-by Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins, rich, elderly amateur soprano and musical clubwoman. Mrs. Jenkins' night-queenly swoops and hoots, her wild wallowings in descending trills, her repeated staccato notes like a cuckoo in its cups, are innocently...
> When Napoleon planned the invasion of Britain, he dreamed of just such a stripping as this, and sent his fleet as a decoy to the West Indies to try to accomplish it; but then only Nelson and the Mediterranean squadron entered the chase. With the Bismarck gone, the Germans still...