the right word
ex Viña Delmar, “Pretty Sadie McKee” (part 1), Liberty 10:25 (June 24, 1933)
Tommy Wallace plays the ukelele. Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg.
archive.org : link
in twelve parts; now (14 years later — they weren’t there then!), I find them all at archive.org :
- June 24, 1933 : link
- July 1, 1933 : link
- July 8, 1933 : link
- July 15, 1933 : link
- July 22, 1933 : link
- July 29, 1933 : link
- August 5, 1933 : link
- August 12, 1933 : link
- August 19, 1933 : link
- August 26, 1933 : link
- September 2, 1933 : link
- September 9, 1933 : link
“Words were treacherous things” —
also in Radclyffe Hall, The Master of the House (1932), and Alfred Kern, The Clown (1960)
It’s most instructive when you can’t find the right word — it can prove that you’re truly envisaging a mental fact, and not a ghost from a dictionary.
Paul Valéry, Cahiers/Notebooks (1900)
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