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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he speculated upon the most common of all human pastimes, Talking, it appeared to Milton ("Dance Marathon") Crandall that the purpose of this sport was to see who could talk the longest. Accordingly he announced a "noun and verb rodeo, the world's championship gab-fest," and set up a ticket-taker at the gate of an armory in Manhattan...
...perjury last month. Last week, again, he was acquitted, or at least "aquibbled." Conducted by "million-dollar" counsel (small, snappy, whitehaired Lawyer Frank J. Hogan), the Stewart defense succeeded in shifting the crux of the case from the honesty of Col. Stewart's double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. It was an easy matter for the defense to impress the jury...
Though the precise origin of the noun gigolo (zhi-go-lo) is obscure, it probably derives from the verb gigotter "to kick about," the adjective gigotté "strong sinewed'' and the noun gigots "legs," or "shanks...
...which might be rolled compactly. And that led to a new kind of camera, the Kodak (1888). Mr. Eastman invented the name by fiddling with a batch of separate letters until he put together a group that looked alluring and sounded sensible. The word is now a common noun, verb and radical in European languages. It appears in standard dictionaries...
...more-and withdrew from Wall Street in 1912. "Greatest speculator of his generation" he was called by men who knew. Envious men accused him of having a sixth sense-a feminine intuition that guided his financial darts and swoops. His own explanation was the original definition of the verb "to speculate." He said: "Analyze the word and you'll find that it comes from the latin speculare, to observe. According to the dictionary, it means to ponder a subject in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate...