Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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His Review, which contemporaries considered a far greater achievement than Robinson Crusoe, was largely filled with dull political and economic arguments, but it did introduce the first gossip column, the first society news and first advice to the lovelorn in English-language journalism. Like Dorothy Dix, Editor Defoe spun many...
The Oakland dispatcher breathed easier. If Stead was where he said he was, he should be landing in 15 minutes. But troubles were piling up for the husky oldtime (8,650 hours) pilot like ice on a wing in a freezing rain. On he flew, but heard no cone of...
Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn...
The career of Negley Parson-athlete, munitions salesman, aviator, foreign correspondent, lover-has been, if nothing else, a testament to his superb physique. As readers galloped through his best-selling autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, their wonder grew how a man could avoid cracking up even halfway through such...
You remind me of the opponents of the rail-roads in the 1830's: they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or...