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...McCord was already ahead of them. Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable. McCord says he prefers real Lost Positives, but for fun sometimes uses false ones, such as pistle. "The prefix in that word is really not the Latin e but the Greek epi," he explains. This justified his reply to a friend who sent him a clipping with a note: "Lighted to ward the closed which is cised from day's Irish Times." McCord wrote back: "Pistle ceived...
...laid off 800 of its 5,219 Meadville workers, had only enough inventories to keep going until next month. But Meadville has led a charmed life. Thanks to Talon's spectacular growth and a new American Viscose Corp. rayon plant, it scarcely felt the de pression of the '305. None of its three banks failed; its population rose; newspapers as far away as Manhattan publicized it as a "depression-proof city" whose "streets were paved with gold...
...first is freedom of speech and ex pression - everywhere in the world...
...graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said to be displeased with the Annapolis graduate, considering him too radical despite the U. S. discipline...
...servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers several years ago carried a story that he had been seen trotting round and round a tree under the im pression that he was a horse. He has always had painting materials in his room in the Bellevue Sanitarium at Kreuzlin gen, where he draws strange bugs, flower arrangements, distorted masks and faces with staring eyes. Not long ago Mme Nijinsky showed a collection of these fancies to Drs. Sigmund Freud...