Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian justice has a flair for getting people to admit most anything. It got Sensualist Koch to admit shooting at least three victims at each mass execution as an example to his men, asphyxiating 30 people in a gas chamber, sending 2,500 to Maidanek (knowing it was a death...
This breaks the literary canon that flippancy about death is indecent. It also cracks a lot of other time-honored conventions: the eccentric, all-knowing detective, the stupid Dr. Watson, stupendous examples of deduction, the contest between evil and the law, the contest of wits between reader and author (whodunit...
The New Opposers. The Tories must take a shorter view. It is the talk of London that Winston Churchill, to all effects, is out of the Party leadership. At most, says many a knowing Tory gossip, he will manage to hang on for a brief interim, then hand it over...
Mugg-Maker. From his desk overlooking the street, on a dais where a coutouriére's models once paraded. Silverman fed items to fledgling Gossip Walter Winchell, made knowing muggs out of Jack Lait (now editor of Hearst's New York Mirror) and Columnist Louis Sobol, bought...
Seventeenth-Century Moliére (real name: Jean Baptiste Poquelin) might have been a little startled at what has happened to his doltish M. Jourdain, who was already an outrageous enough butt. Everybody swindled and snickered at him-the dancing masters and fencing masters hired to teach him the graces...