Word: postscript
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...puttered around airplane engines, briefly managed a dinky air line in Southern California before getting his divorce. Of aviation he wrote as a layman to laymen, amateurishly twanging the Hearst harp for larger U. S. air defenses. ¶Swallowed up in last week's hurricane was the sloop Postscript manned by three young Manhattan neighbors of President Roosevelt. Out of Manasquan, N. J. for Nantucket had sailed Pierre Irving, 21, great-grandnephew of Washington Irving, and the Niles Brothers, John, 23. and Charles, 16. sons of Dr. Walter Niles who lives around the corner from the President on East...
...interpretation of all this allegory, the author declares in the postscript preface that the Bible is a mess, and uses the more modern translations of it for his proof. The Book of Revelations is "a curious record of the visions of a drug addict." And to him Christianity is "an amazing muddle, which has held out only because the views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds." Suspecting that the masses are ready to accept the doctrine of Truth, the author feels that he is timely in getting out this plea for a realignment...
...dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens to be his own. The great critic listened with nostalgic enthusiasm to a succession of vibrant and polished stanzas, and when the visitor had departed he turned to his desk and added in PostScript to a letter "There is among us a boy full of genius...
...Postscript to Goodbye To All That" Graves answers some of his critics, prints some of their contradictory letters, gives his own solution for war. Says he: it is impossible to legislate war out of existence, and not altogether desirable, for if it could be controlled it might be fun again. His suggested form of war "falls somewhere between a football match with large numbers of players on each side and an eighteenth-century battle." Rules: evenly matched forces (not more than 5,000 men a side), neutral umpires, short duration (two or three weeks). "The object of each army would...