Word: punditing
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...Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...
...sacred coconut was blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...
...figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said to have boomed at Songwriter Irving Berlin of Hearst Jr.: "He is the most promising young man who has come into the profession of journalism during my lifetime...
Before James McKeen Cattell became a journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social...
...more to say when he read adverse criticisms of Night, his newly-unveiled ornament on the London Underground office building. One pundit had observed...