Word: whatnot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since TIME is delivered to me, at my desk, at the beginning of the work day, Fridays, I take snatches at it, between rewriting reporters, wire copy and whatnot. But this snatch, the penultimate paragraph, col. 1, p. 13, April 23, in which you state that his audience didn't laugh at Roosevelt's pun, indicates a fall from your customary accurate grace...
...Kong (RKO), sponsored rather by economy than inspiration, makes mediocre use of the mechanical monsters which littered RKO studios after last year's production of King Kong. Unlike famed Kong, 30-ft. prehistoric whatnot who, transplanted to Manhattan, was shot by airplanes off the top of the Empire State Building, his son is a mild hobgoblin, with small taste for adventure. When Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack (instead of Fay Wray, who aroused his father's lust) arrive to hunt for hidden treasure on his South Sea island, he greets them hospitably, defends them against hostile natives...
...pressing problem. It was solved by that most arrogantly graceful of old school diplomats, Foreign Minister Dr. Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, who converses in such formal, rounded periods that he always appears to be reading an oration. Dr. Saavedra Lamas remembered that there still exists in Washington a moribund whatnot called the Inter-American High Commission, created by the First Pan-American Financial Conference in 1915. With vast relief the Seventh Pan-American Conference in Montevideo "referred" Dr. Puig's moratorium for consideration to the Washington whatnot...
...next important phase of the new industry: Distribution. Under his deft hand Mission Dry Corp.. nation-wide sellers of orange, lemon and grapefruit juice, with 1,700 jobbers' outlets and a sales organization throughout the land, has been recapitalized and staffed up. ready to move whiskeys and whatnot from warehouses via retailers to sideboards as none of the distillers or importers except perhaps Schenley is yet prepared to do. After the stampede is well begun, as all liquormen are beginning to realize, the real money will go to the ablest sales organizations, just as it does...
...injecting into Mrs. Dudding's veins a serum made from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree, would be born Nov. 15 (TIME, Oct. 30): an announcement by Ex-convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers...