Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknowns. At least five other vitamins have been identified chemically,* but no one knows how many more there may be, or what they do. For the vitamins not yet identified, concentrates are made from a list of weird items reminiscent of a Chinese pharmacopoeia: yeast, wheat germ, defatted milk, rice polishings, grass juice and liver extract...
While long-nosed Wanda Landowska was giving brilliant, vigorous, scholarly performances of C. P. E. Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach scholars of the audience reaction to the first performance in Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1729. At that time a scandalized old lady rose to her feet and exclaimed: "God help us! It's surely an opera comedy...
After reeling off "Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge" and "Look Who's Talking," that venerable old zany, S. J. Perelman has again gratified his circle of admirateurs with the fantastic "Dream Department," the first book to convincingly defy Freud. S. J. has a weird genius for solving a problem when he sees one, and here presents us with a number of solutions to economic, psychological, and social problems that ordinarily go unnoticed by the laity. For example, there's snobbery at Schrafft's, and Dr. Perelman enlarges on this crucial topic in his memorable "A Pox on You, Mine Goodly Host...
Meanwhile, belated attempts to snare the elusive can of beer, have been pouring in from all quarters. A telegram from Exeter brought the right solution at the wrong time. A letter from Andover brought out a weird arrangement of s and t's and periods, with the result running something like "Am in a mess. Beware of trap." They're in a mess...
...April 15 Joe Loveless came up with a weird machine in a four-gallon kerosene tin. It had been assembled from parts of a weak transmitter, a native's receiver and a few pieces of wire, put together with a bamboo soldering stick. But it worked. Joe Loveless called Darwin...