Word: whatnots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rights and interests, has ceased to count: filing systems, ever more elaborate, even to the point of completely baffling the office force; questionnaires, ever more personal, so much so that the applicant for work must write home before he can proceed intelligently; ever increasing routine, requiring reports and whatnot, under dire threat of being blacklisted at the Bureau. The tyranny of so-called efficiency has reached new heights this fall with the requirement that applicants file pictures of themselves and a budget for their year's income and proposed expenses with the Secretary for Employment...
...wait. And so the "siege" that ended two days ago began. After M. Daudet had received French pastry, champagne, and other life maintaining victuals in great number from his friends, and after daily during the "siege" announcing that to surrender would mean the end of civil liberty, honour, and whatnot, M. Daudet quite naturally surrendered...
...much for the young men. What of the older men. There are, widely, three classes of older professors at Harvard: those who have risen through the ranks at Harvard, those who have been transferred from other colleges, and those who are occasionally brought in from editorships or whatnot to lecture. the first class includes such a man as Professor Kittredge. Author of such a masterful and interesting work as that on Chaucer, he annually blinds men to those sweeping, swinging thoughts in Shakspere which a Bradley can uncover and which such a seeker after truth as Professor Kittredge must surely...
...Hotel Breslin in Manhattan something was going on that would have delighted. It was a toy fair at which the toy manufacturers were convened to display their tempting devices: kiddy cars, little red sleds, drums, dolls, waddling ducks, electric railroad trains, blocks, toy ships, toy soldiers and whatnot...
...Radcliffe long enough to see Benavente's "School for Princesses". For I rather liked the way it was done. Of course the heroine's continual pegieggedness was a trifle diverting for one who wished to concentrate on her regality. And the court gallant, the Duke of Asperin or Whatnot, might have done a little less bubbling about and made a few of his words intelligible. Yet those are the things which give amateur dramatics these Piquancy. I liked the play and the close of the second act was really theatrical. Though how the audience could laugh at some...