Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russell's lucidly dull book merges 1) semantics, the study of the "relation between linguistic and nonlinguistic events," 2) metaphysics, the study of how closely man's beagle mind can sniff its way to "truth." Typical Russell arguments...
Willkie was not a leader in any sense that was politically recognizable. In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even...