Word: whatnots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. For their Hooper-boosting services, they were paid a grand total of about $100,000. Individual guests pulled down as much as $3,500 in New York and $5,000 in Hollywood (perhaps because of the high cost of swimming pools) in cash, cars, refrigerators and whatnot...
crossed legs pulled, is seldom admonished so abstractly. After due scrutiny and reflection, Reader Parker's whatnot was returned to him with our thanks...
...today is selling Army goods, obtained by hook or crook, at black-market prices. Eating places sell bread, butter and coffee with condensed milk, pies and other delicacies made of materials that can be obtained only from the Army. Small boys roam the streets everyday, peddling candy, cigarets and whatnot bought from G.I.s needing ready cash...
...most characteristic poems are composed as colloquies between various quarters of his mind. And Oxonian Auden's up-to-the-minute mind has, roughly speaking, as many, and as sketchily correlated, quarters as a university has classrooms or a newspaper has columns. Psychoanalysis, sociology, literary history, bawdry, biology, whatnot, all chip in to make Auden's poems...