Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spares India neither praise nor blame. It takes a passing glance at the high, cool beauties of Kashmir, the shaded Western luxuries of India's rich, and the dark, woebegone face of an Indian waif circled by three buzzing flies. It watches a family of Untouchables eating a nameless dirty mush, then joins a poor but caste-proud Brahman for a chaste meal of fruit and vegetables, arranged, as elegantly as a still-life painting, on a large plantain leaf...
...State Bank of tiny (pop. 150) Virgil is a two-story, stucco-covered brick building on a nameless blacktop road. It has 500 depositors, $707,000 in deposits and assets, and five directors, most of them retired farmers, all but one, members of the same family. It is the sort of crib that "Pretty Boy" Floyd could crack while sucking tomato seeds from between his teeth...
Last week, in front of Jogjakarta's nameless hotel, the people no longer shouted friendly greetings; they had only glum, sullen stares for white men. Said a Dutch official: "Indonesians, like the Dutch, would rather live in a leaky sod hut of their own than in the finest foreign-built building. Will Indonesians have another building of their own? Now they are not sure. When they come to trust us to give them independence, as we promised, they will work with...
Princess Elizabeth was up & about, and her new infant (still nameless, he is just called "baby" by the royal family) was gaining steadily. Most of the betting said that George would be the first of his traditionally long string of names...
Although he probably calls all of the Cliffe houses indiscriminately, both Barnard Hall and 33 Healey Street have received more than their share of phone recitals. Twenty Walker Street, whose new Phone number was not listed in the directory, has not heard from the nameless person this year...