Word: nameless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...
...Hollywood's leading stars, Katharine Hepburn is possibly the least versatile. It is precisely this limitation which made her the ideal choice for the role of Alice. The woebegone grimaces, the expressions, half childish and half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind...
...substituting for regular members. On the New York Stock Exchange, only members may buy & sell, and on dull days the clerks have even a duller time than brokers. A year ago when trading became rutted at about 700,000 shares per day, the floor clerks in desperation devised a nameless game which has almost all the elements of real trading. For a long time the idle floor members ignored the game, continuing to spend the daily five-hour Stock Exchange session at backgammon or horseplay. After the turn of the year, the members suddenly took up the clerks' game...
...Pylon is the city of "New Valois." New Orleanians will quickly pierce the thin disguise, will wryly admit the biting likeness of the "Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other member...
...male lead, who must, alas, remain nameless, by request of the Club, teamed well with Miss Butler as the perplexed and somewhat unworldly husband...