Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators in the great Appalachian coal fields and United Mine Workers' John Lewis, who for seven weeks had been unable to agree on a new labor contract. Having heard him out last week, John Lewis ironically announced that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along with "my humble self." Pudgy Charles O'Neill of Pennsylvania, the operators' spokesman-in-chief, likewise...
Termination of seven instructorships and one faculty appointment in the Economics Department were learned of yesterday, and attention was once again focused on the recurring gaps of experienced teaching that occur when such mass exoduses are made...
...this revolutionary steelmaking machinery than all its competitors combined. President Ladd, a curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign markets. He consolidated seven U. S. plants into four, set up affiliates in Canada, England, France, sold complete mills to Russia, Japan, England...
Compounded of puns, disjointed syllables, half-words, it is closest to English, but Erse, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French, Sanskrit, even Esperanto appear, usually distorted to suggest both an alien and an English notion. The ablest punster in seven languages, Joyce sometimes combines puns and snatches of songs. Example: "ginabawdy meadabawdy!" (from a passage dealing with Earwicker's dream of a night out). Using a favorite device, he suggests that Anna Livia is the River Liffey by slyly punning on the names of other rivers: "he gave her the tigris eye," "rubbing the mouldaw stains," "And the dneepers...
...Author. With the publication of Finnegans Wake, James Joyce has probably closed the cycle of his great works. Ulysses took seven years to write, Finnegans Wake, 17. At this rate of progression another book would take 41 years, making Joyce 98 when it was finished...