Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention in honor of the dead. They may have a picture of unruly mobs of students jeering the services, insulting their country, desecrating the shrines of memory. Certainly they will not realize that any actual rioting was completely divorced from the ceremonies, that it was provoked just as much by the Kerry Corner Kids as by the students...
Although each ascent of a radiosonde costs as much as $30, they have proved invaluable for the air service, which can not get accurate and steady weather reports from the stratosphere in any other...
...been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time for women, has never married...
...stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken him out of the air. Because Martin is the Martin Company they are taking no chances. His life is insured for $1,000,000 and the policy is void if he so much as gets into an airplane on which a propeller is turning...
Last week they brought out a big collection of Author Weidman's short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie." Published in a wide variety of magazines over the past five years, these 28 stories will not add much to Author Weidman's strong reputation with friendly readers. But they should be good medicine for his noisy, self-appointed censors. The majority deal with the Manhattan East Siders he grew up with, including a few embryo Harry Bogens, but a good number show that Author Weidman's range, human and geographical, goes well beyond the East Side...