Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute of Arts to hear tousle-haired Dr. Shapley discourse on "Exploring the Galaxy." This talk was to be illustrated with stereopticon slides. Few minutes before lecture time a man from the projection room scuttled up to the platform, confessed to the astronomer that the slides had been mislaid. Squirming and damp-browed. Dr. Shapley whispered hoarsely to the man who was about to introduce...
...Mislaid Years...
...TIME, Dec. 23, under Business & Finance, I read where Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies was a tall woman of 52, but on p. 49 under Milestones I find the same lady listed as 48. Is it possible she could have mislaid four years of age in ten pages of printing...
Through a typographical error TIME, not Mrs. Davies, mislaid four of her years. Her correct...
Like the A. E. F.'s "Lost Battalion." the Lost Generation (named by Gertrude Stein, advertised by Ernest Hemingway) was not really lost but merely mislaid. A crowd of prodigal sons who refused to come home, this Lost Generation was the self-consciously intellectual counterpart of the late U. S. phenomenon, Flaming Youth. Except for a few Peter Pans and a few suicides, these War Babies have now-grown up. In Exile's Return Malcolm Cowley takes a good look at his literary generation, admits "it was an easy, quick, adventurous age, good to be young...