Word: namelessness
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...nameless author: "The Pulitzer prize is a very silly thing. Prizes given to reporters, cartoonists, editorial writers, advertisers have some relevance because they bring to public notice fine work which would otherwise be forgotten, but a prize given to a well-known novel, play, poem, has the effect of making people think of that piece of work as "the best." There is no best. Nor is the prize money much help to the writer that has received it. It comes to him only after he has achieved some major success; and to give a man $1,000 for a novel...
...Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
...Budapest, Prince Galitzin, onetime member of the State Council of Russia, has just published his memoirs of the Russian revolution. He asserts that "the Tsar Nicholas and certain members of his immediate family are still alive" and are dwelling in "intense seclusion" at "a place which must naturally remain nameless...
...Council might well be asked to take it in hand, devising some means whereby general undergraduate opinion may be properly reflected in the matter. Every instructor is interested in knowing what the students think of his course; but we doubt that he will be much influenced by what some nameless individual thinks of it, which is all that the CRIMSON has given him this autumn. Alumni Bulletin...
...lavatory man, but bleaker still if he is a lavatory man employed by the U. S. Government. Nor are lavatory men alone in their exigency. Federal attendants of all sorts, guards in zoos and biological gardens, seneschals in museums and the gray-faced individuals of nameless profession who patrol at intervals the hollow echoing corridors of public libraries ? all are underpaid, all are overworked...