Word: whatnots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People In The Next Seats, there are thousands of them. No, this is not a fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
...upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways to travel. For the convenience of any lady who might be so ill-advised as to forfeit a quiet walk for a ride in this car, there was a vanity case of tooled Venetian leather stretched upon...
...fitting oneself to cut a larger figure, in whatever terms of social standing or whatnot of that sort; or to make money with the idea that a reputation for having "been to college" affords a running start in business...
...public adores freaks; it always will. And certain doting mothers will allow precocious performances of their offspring to beguile them into dragging the offspring before the journalistic spotlight. So, occasionally, some child will, through environment or training or whatnot, concoct verses to delight the critics. But critics are often guileless, often glad to enjoy novelty. The maternal conscience should keep more awake. For, after all, few poets of eleven can at thirty survive the reading of their earliest verse. If they can they are not poets...
Suddenly certain newspapers and persons began to murmur, "This Parsee,* this M.P. from Battersea, he's a Red, an anarchist, a whatnot. What does the State Department mean by admitting him? Doesn't the law forbid the entrance of persons into this country who advocate the overthrow of our Government...