Word: whimseys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March Usborne suggested the mysterious question to London's Spectator as a topic for its Competition, a resolutely droll contest in which readers submit humorous essays and verse on set subjects. Spectator readers sailed off on a sea of whimsey, concocting hypotheses. One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion...
American", which darts from the observation that "the American was always taking a short cut to freedom, a short cut to fortune, a short cut to learning, and a short cut to heaven," to the professorial whimsey of "He [the American] knew that through pleasures and palaces though he might roam, be it ever so humble there was no place like home...