Word: whatnot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This magazine embodies an attempt to share the fat profits of the Golden Book, (TIME, Dec. 29) a publication which furnishes its readers with a monthly selection of stories, essays, poems, whatnot, reprinted from the works of classic and modern authors. About 75% of the material of the Golden Book is classic?25% culled second hand from the works of contemporary authors. The Famous Story Magazine bids for popularity by the simple process of inverting this formula...
...clatter, arms protrude from solid stone, panels slide and lights go black and green. While their surroundings are thus behaving queerly, the company unfolds a tale of horrid humors. It seems that the Gorilla was a monstrous criminal who advertised his criming and then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child's explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded...
Mexico bounds California for 160 miles. They are miles of trouble-not a mile but has been desecrated by narcotics, aliens, liquor, contraband whatnot...
...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...
...immigrant? and would-be immigrants who create . . . the essential problem of Ellis Island . . . They all, lady, prostitute, mechanic, rabbi and whatnot are frightened, nervous...