Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University astronomical exports declared that there was nothing at all to be surprised at. They said last night's display was the fourth in the year, and that they were expecting it all the time because of the current intensity of sunspots, Sunspot activity, at present at the height of...
In the 22 hours that followed, the world press collected a mare's-nest of wild reports from Apia. The Clipper was safe in Apia harbor. She was down safe on the sea near Tutuila. Only the high mountains were keeping her signals from coming through. More alarmingly, a...
Norris Houghton has designed a perfect setting for melodrama, a mid-Victorian living room encrusted with gimcracks and statues, any one of which might inspire crime. But Stop-Over, after a good takeoff, gets bogged in its own dull subplots. Its chief actor, Blackmer, is left stranded with nothing to...
Diamond Jim Brady, who thought nothing of downing a few dozen oysters as an appetizer for a 15-course dinner, was during his lifetime as famed as a salesman as he was as a gastrophile. If his stomach was gargantuan, his entertainment expenses and the sales that followed were epic...
But unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is...