Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there came a hint from Detroit's unconventional Bill Stout, whose famed engineering-jargon dictum is: "Simplicate, and add more light-ness." Said Designer Stout: "Airplane manufacturers know immensely more about making gears than auto manufacturers. They can build a better, bigger...
...preface to one of these 16 short plays William Saroyan compares himself to George Bernard Shaw. The comparison is not altogether presumptuous. He shares with Shaw a fearless, sassy gaiety, and like Shaw he holds naturalism, heavyminded-ness and the theater in general in contempt. Both, in Saroyan's words, believe that the theater "all theater-should be fun. . . ." Whatever else they are, these plays and prefaces...
...three occasions, with Crimson scores from the sticks of Gordy McGrath, Mare Beebe, and Johnny Paine. With the Crimson ahead 2 to 0, Maloon went on his one man rampage and in five minutes had tied the count. And then, after Harvard had nosed in front again, Van Ness deadlocked the count...
...surreptitiously I have encouraged any expectant mothers, who felt so inclined, to drink this infusion. ... In a good many cases in my own experience the subsequent labor has been easy and free from muscular spasm. . . . More labors are held up by muscular . . . tension than are delayed by muscular weak ness...
...Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute at each corner-settles on and perhaps submerges the Isle of Wight or Skye." > A London newsie chalked on his placard "Extra! Return of Loch Ness Monster." > Other professional and amateur British humorists punned at length. Examples: Mein Dekampf, Your Hess is as good as mine, Hess Sir, That's My Baby, Trojan Hess, Hessteria...