Word: potter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston (Potter) 8, Cincinnati 7 (15 innings...
...most successful article is one written in the manner of Potter's gamesmanship-or How to Win Without Actually Cheating." It is called "Test-manship" and gives some various practices which may be employed in "the art of taking exams without actually knowing anything." This piece of drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There...
...Potter notes: "No matter how wild Lifeman's quiet insertion may be, it is enough to create a pause, even a tiny sensation . . . To break the winning vein, break the flow...
...more advanced students of Lifemanship, Potter offers the Question Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
...This," notes Potter, "is the lightest of trips; yet if properly managed the tone of voice can suggest that you can afford to say the obvious thing because you have approached your conclusion the hard way, through a long apprenticeship of study...