Word: scribendi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is my second attack of radio-induced "cacocthes scribendi"; Christmas Day the glorious music of Philco made me realize that there may be a Heaven after all! I'm reconciled if Saint Peter will allow Leopold Stokowski to direct the harps-with a few wind instruments added as a concession to modernity...
...should be compelled to pause in their pursuits to evade the buzzing and pestering of the musca [fly] Ambruster. . . . The Journal . . . will continue to devote little of its interest ot space in the future to unfounded charges, to insinuations without evidence, to the calling of names, or to cacoethes scribendi [itch for writing] on the part of any commercial assailant...
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