Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME of Dec. 13 . . . after stating that Whittaker Chambers produced certain papers during the course of depositions taken by me as attorney for Alger Hiss, you say...
...there are signs of a letdown. In the Badger Tavern, an off-campus hangout, ex-G.I. Bob Miller remarked one night last week: "Some blame it on the talk about another war, some say we're just tired. Whatever it is, there seems to be more cutting of classes this year, more playing around, and less work." President Harold W. Stoke of Louisiana State University, who once taught at Wisconsin, returned there recently and observed: "If you take a freshman at college and give him a convertible and a textbook, you have an uneven contest...
Actually, say Dr. Allan and co-worker Dr. Manuel Kaufman in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, benign nervousness is a lot more common than the nasty, malignant (psychoneurotic) kind. One way to tell the difference: the patient with the benign kind is pleased if he is told there's nothing wrong with him physically; the true neurotic is apt to be disappointed...
...first sensation," he said, "was just the joy of having made the shmoo. Then came a feeling of annoyance. I've been subjected to all the shmoo jokes in the world, like 'there's good shmoos tonight,' and I mustn't say go-to-hell to anybody. Now I'm delighted again, having read that the shmoo has all sorts of economic meanings...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...