Word: whatnot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will...
...their greeting to the New Year, the various Spanish leaders, White and Red, delivered bombastic harangues all about the People, God, Culture, Communism and whatnot. White Generalissimo Francisco Franco had left the deadlocked siege of Madrid, flown south to sunny Seville and was starting an entirely new White offensive to drive the Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris...
...other words, if half the team gets off pro, if they all work like. Trojans during the Christmas vacation and reading period so that they can get off pro, if they get the breaks, if Mikkola's and Neufeld's genius succeeds in improving their form and whatnot, and if they get the breaks, they will win some meets this winter...
Many a suit at law has hinged on the interpretation of an "and/or." Usually the decision has gone against the drafter who slipped that literary whatnot into his contract. An early instance is a case decided in a British court on Feb. 8, 1855. A shipper named Gumming had accepted from a ship owner named Cuthbert a contract to provide one complete cargo of "sugar, molasses and/or other lawful products...
...decade's most extraordinary theatrical whatnot went into the final frenzy of rehearsals, Producer Rose had a man on a downtown stage practicing a high-dive into a cage of lions and tigers while a swarm of acrobats and jugglers put the last pat of perfection to their acts and a crew of stagehands struggled with a spangled, 40-ft. jack-in-the-box which pops out of something no bigger than a suitcase. In a Brooklyn riding academy, 16 acrobatic dancers were in training for an equestrian ballet. Inside the Hippodrome the enormous stage had been extended...