a someone of’s, panoptic
| 1911 | a someone of the other days, to whom | Philip Verrill Mighels | Thurley Ruxton | |
| 1911 | or a someone of that kind | Parliamentary Debates | “Supply Committee, Scottish Estimates” | |
| 1916 | Would not a Someone, who is a Someone of fact, be a real help? Is he not, indeed, rather difficult to escape? | Lucius Hopkins Miller, “A Layman’s Question about the ‘Freudian Wish’ as interpreted by E. B. Holt,” The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods | ||
| 1926 | Eh? A. Someone of the three, someone of the three, sir. | Samuel Schreiber v Munson Steamship Line, N.Y. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Case on Appeal | ||
| 1926 | a someone of all-round excellence, present at the Court, and capable of rediscovering philosophy if it were to disappear. | “The new Latin translations,” in History of Medieval Philosophy by Maurice de Wulf; Ernest C. Messenger, trans. | ||
| 1927 | No; I found out through an underground channel. A. Someone of the “red-hots” in St. Louis. |
Testimony of George Merrill, in Harrison, et al., V. United States of America | ||
| 1932 | A. Someone of the times he was down there a losing proposition and I wanted to get rid of it |
State of Michigan Supreme Court, Appeal, Wellman v. Tiger Oil Co. | ||
| 1935 | A. Someone of the family, yes. the same machine, the same typewriting, those two all the difference is in just that one letter |
McPherson v. DeConick, 272 MICH 578 | ||
| 1948 | a someone of such cunning and effectiveness that one must recall him who built Neptune Nord It is in code, but |
Robinson MacLean | The Baited Blonde | |
| 1951 | a someone of those mental acro-matter, should be asked to write an clue for some expert unraveller bats | OCR cross-column confusion, something somewhere at World’s Press News and Advertisers’ Review | ||
| 1930 | a someone of the most pronounced civic culture It is, admittedly, an extraordinary fantasy... If anything is needed at the Last Judgment, it is ventilation. |
Walter Benjamin, “A Jacobin of our Time; On Werner Hegemann’s Das steinerne Berlin,” translation in Metropolis Berlin : 1880–1940, Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby, eds., (2012) | ||
| 1973 | the form and the status of a “someone,” of a subject | Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Title of the Letter : A Reading of Lacan; François Raffoul and David Pettigrew, trans. (1973; 1992) | ||
| 2001 | Man of the people means : A Someone of the same | John Moir | Excel / Selective Schools and Scholarship Tests : Skills and Strategies, Years 5-6 | |
| 2016 | The root refers to a ‘someone of mixed race’ and the stem to ‘someone so mixed that he is almost white’. where such a palm tree exists |
Rosa Vallejos | A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria : A Language from the Amazon | |
| 2017 | not a ] ‘something’ but a ‘someone’; of that he was unreasonably sure. Once again, | Ruth Hogan | The Keeper of Lost Things | |
| 2017 | Blood puddle floats a photograph, a someone of once cared. |
Sean Michael McCarthy | “Fallen Soldier,” in Your Life of Poems | |
sources, in greater detail :
Someway, in his desperate plight, he felt the necessity for Thurley Ruxton, a someone of the other days, to whom to open the gates of his soul and relieve the pressure within. She had not replied to his letter, that note amounting to a curt demand that she permit him to announce their engagement. Irrationally he told himself that if she had only sent him word, definite word, even a negative reply, the entire fabric of his luck must have undergone a transformation.
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reviewed (and conveniently summarized) in The New York Times (June 9, 1911) : link (paywalled), but —
Did you ever read a New York City fairy story? No? Then try one by Philip Verrill Mighels entitled “Thurley Ruxton” (Desmond Fitzgerald, $1.20). Of course, it is a love fairy, but it is fairy all the same, and the love isn’t the kind that pessimists say prevails in Fifth Avenue and other portions of fashionable Manhattan either. Thurley is the girl, and she comes down from New Haven to be a literary assistant to a rich old Major who has the writing bee in his bonnet. But she’s a beauty, and before she has been in the metropolis a fortnight she has rescued a wealthy young fellow with a large red touring car and a broken wrist in Central Park, and has been taken to the home of a fairy godmother worth all kinds of money, seeking a new divertisement. The New Haven naiad supplies the nub and society does the rest. Every “swell” in town is on the trail (she is believed to be a princess incog), and one young blood is so enamored of her that when he comes to take her driving, he brings fifty-seven different varieties of vehicles to her door for her to make her choice. Isn’t that just like one of these impressionable, unsophisticated New Yorkers? They all do it that way, don’t they? Things move swiftly for Thurley, and she is captured by some anarchists, who yearn to dabble in royal blood, and carried off to a lonely spot on Long Island. —
Philip Verrill Mighels (1869-1911), writer, novelist (first of the “Sagebrush School,” but later of broader scope, including science and detective fiction) He said, truly, that in a great many instances old people were denied their 5s. on the ground that they had given up their crofts into the hands of successors, who might be a son or a someone of that kind; and he asked that inquiry should be made into the circumstances of those people in order that we might deal fairly by them.
commences :
Let me present my question in the form of a dialogue between Holt’s text and my own marginal notes...
Text). — “That is ethics ‘from below.’ The ethics 'from above’ are a very different story. There Someone exhorts or obliges us to suppress our wishes, and if we observe Someone a bit carefully we shall all too often find that he generously busies himself with suppressing the facts” (р. 133). —
Lucius Hopkins Miller (1876-1949), professor, Princeton University, Department of Religion obituary in The New York Times (February 2, 1949) : link (paywalled), but —
Lucius Hopkins Miller, since 1923 an associate of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., bankers, 40 Wall Street, and previously professor of Biblical history and literature at Princeton University, died unexpectedly yesterday of heart disease at his home, 192 East Seventy-second Street. He was 72 years old. also in The New York Times (August 30, 1914) : link (paywalled) — —
some papers in the The Lucius Hopkins Miller Manuscript Collection, SCM 197. correspondence at Princeton University Library, Special Collections : link Q. You sat around seeing them work? A. I had occasion to go down — The author not only praises the scientific discussions which the Pope had with those around him, but also speaks of a someone of all-round excellence, present at the Court, and capable of rediscovering philosophy if it were to disappear. This would be St. Thomas Aquinas according to Grauert; Albert the Great according to Grabmann (Histor. Jahrbuch, 1917, pp. 315-320). A. No; I found out through an underground channel. A. I can swear she never signed any papers alone, yes. To city after city our man searches, seeking the others, seeking the traitor. Always, ever, when he approaches the trail he finds there a someone of such cunning and effectiveness that one must recall him who built Neptune Nord.
brief review (by Isaac Anderson) in The New York Times (September 19, 1948) : link (paywalled)
CAPT. DUANE HOGAN is sent to Djibouti on a hush-hush mission. He doesn’t like Djibouti. Nobody does. The Arabs say that the place was made from scraps that were left over when Hell was finished. Hogan is inclined to believe it until he meets the blonde. Even then he isn’t too sure. The men attached to Naval Intelligence or OSS are taught to beware of blondes, especially when they are beautiful. The blonde advises Hogan to leave Djibouti and go to Port Said. The police have the same idea, but that is after a man with whom Hogan has talked has been murdered, and the police do not stop at advice. They make it an order. All this time Hogan is trying to find three scraps of paper which, when matched to another scrap already in Washington, will reveal a top-secret formula. He has to be exceedingly careful lest he tip his hand to the opposition, and he doesn’t know which of the persons he meets are friends and which are foes. In other words, this is a story of international intrigue with plenty of the bang-bang stuff to pep it up. initial landing — ...a someone of those mental acro-matter, should be asked to write an clue for some expert unraveller bats to solve a real-life message writer worth his salt will get through; essay upon a chosen subject. Any lose (such as I) who ...
inside this book — ...used to run code messages for bright readers; what a scoop for someone of those mental acrobats to solve a real-life message from a modern Prisoner of Zenda.
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included here, but not used in derivation.
as for the title — ...As he now presents himself as a someone of the most pronounced civic culture, a man who understands intimately the mutual play of culture and politics in any situation with which he is confronted, a man who approaches the planning of public facilities in American cities and the historical studies of the Prussian kings with the same exactness and imagination. — Wie er sich heute darstellt, ist er ein Mann von ausgeprägtester staatsbürgerlicher Bildung, ein Mann, der an jeder Angelegenheit, mit der er befaßt ist, die kulturellen und politischen Funktionen in engster Wechselwirkung erlebt, ein Mann, der an die Planung öffentlicher Anlagen in amerikanischen Städten mit der gleichen Exaktheit und Phantasie herantrat wie an die historischen Studien über die preußischen Könige. —
Hegemann’s book is undoubtedly a standard work. It is hard to put down, without asking what the reason might be that it fails to make the short step that separates it from ultimate perfection, which would allow the book to exist independently of its subject and render it instead the destiny of its subject. If anything is needed at the Last Judgment, it is ventilation. Both in the practical and metaphorical sense. The site of negotiation is not ventilated, and the questions are not comprehensive. Of course, we live in these rental barracks. Nostra res agitur.’ But the discourse here is not on what is happening now, but in the past. And it is right that from time to time the cooling wind of time past should blow gently through the overheated actuality of debates. Even on the Day of Judgment the fact that everything is located in the distant past must count as an extenuating circumstance. For the passage of time has a moral dimension. This does not, however, lie in its progression from today to tomorrow but in the reversion of today into yesterday. Chronos holds in his hands a Leporello picture book, in which the days fall peel off backward, one out of the other, and in the process reveal their hidden reverse side and the life unconsciously lived. This is what the historian works with. And from here comes Goethe’s: “Be it as it may, it was so wonderful.” History is reconciliatory. ...But by abandoning the “something,” the signified also necessarily abandons its correlate, the “someone.” In signifiance, if there is no referent, neither can there be the one for whom there can be (or should be) reference in general — or more exactly there cannot be that which, in relation to referentiality, takes on by the same token the form and the status of a “someone,” of a subject. 14. Man of the people means : preview landing : link
...the root refers to a type of palm tree, Sp. aguaje, and the derived stem to an area of the Amazon basin where such a palm tree exists. In (4.41c), the root refers to ‘stone’ and the stem is ‘scree’. Example (4.61d) is one of the few instances where -pan indicates ‘degrees of X’. The root refers to a ‘someone of mixed race’ and the stem to ‘someone so mixed that he is almost white’. and, from search in archive.org copy (one of several, all “borrow unavailable”) : link
not a ] ‘something’ but a ‘someone’; of that he was unreasonably sure. Once again, he removed the lid and inspected the contents, as he had done every day for the past week since bringing it home. He had already repositioned the tin in the study several times, placing it higher up or hidden from sight, but its draw remained irresistible. He couldn’t leave it alone. He dipped his hand into the tin and gently rolled the coarse, grey grains across his fingertips. The memory swept through him, snatching his breath and winding him as surely as any punch to the gut. Once again, he was holding death in his hands. Who laments the fallen soldier, 20251002
Here the young man she had rescued in the park comes, in the same car, to reciprocate, but she has made a get-away on her own account and he picks her up on the road. Shortly thereafter two of the assassins chase them in a racing car, and the brave young man, forgetting all about the revolvers he has brought along for reference, jumps from his car to attract the attention of the pursuers and knocks them down with his fists. He had run through pages of the story, miles of suburban real estate and innumerable thrills, when a couple of straight bangs from his gun might have settled the whole business at once. But then that would have been a different story. Thurley is a fine girl and gets the man of her choice after a knock-out for all competitors, including the one who had given her the go-by in New Haven, and left her a college widow to continue working for her living.
Needless to say, the story made its first appearance in serial form. The illustrations are by J. Montgomery Flagg, and they fit the text, barring Thurley’s face, for no painter can paint as a poet can dream.
wikipedia : link
M(arginal note). — Is this a necessary fault in “Someone,” a necessary result of postulating a “Someone”? Is not the antithesis here drawn due rather to the fact that past “Someones,” who have been fathered upon us by tradition, arose more or less divorced from fact? Would not a Someone, who is a Someone of fact, be a real help? Is he not, indeed, rather difficult to escape? It is either that or a Something, the established truth of the factual world, set up by our author himself as the one sanction of ethics.
Born in Roselle, N. J., Mr. Miller prepared for college at the Lea School, Plainfield, N. J., and in 1897 received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton. In college he was the leader of the Glee Club, and was elected to Cap and Gown and the Philadelphian Society.
After graduation Mr. Miller spent three years as a teacher in the American Protestant College, Lebanon, Syria, resigning to join the Princeton faculty.
STARTS WAR UPON PRINCETON TEACHER;
Pamphlet Denouncing Prof. Miller’s Bible Course Stirs Presbyterian Conference.
CALLS FOR HIS DISMISSAL
Dr. Ottman Says Miller “Lures Boys Into the Muculent Ooze of Free Thinking.”
Princeton Theological Seminary. Library. Special Collections. : link
Q. And watching the others work? A. I beg your pardon?
Q. You sat around and watched the others work? A. Stevedores, yes, to do that.
Q. I notice you looked across the room to see somebody, who was it? A. Yes, a lot of my friends were over there.
Q. Who was it? A. Well, not any one in particular, all them, all of them.
Q. Do they use this chocking system? A. Yes, sir, they do.
Q. You realize what the — A. I do, yes.
Q. How about the Ward Line and the Barber Line? A. I quoted the Ward Line. I seen them do it.
Q. Let us see. The Commonwealth Line? A. Yes.
Q. And the Ward Line and the Barber Line. You have seen them do that in all three lines, have you? A. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Q. When did you see it? A. Oh, about — about a year ago at the latest.
Q. And at which line was that that you saw them do that, about a year ago? A. Well, I don’t knew.
Q. Eh? A. Someone of the three, someone of the three, sir.
Q. I guess that is all.
Q. Did you have his address ?
A. I knew approximately where he would be.
Q. Who told you that?
A. Well, I knew where he used to hang out.
Q. Who told you that.
A. Well, I don’t wish to state.
Q. I insist that the witness answer.
A. Well, some thief in St. Louis.
Q. Who told you ?
A. Someone of the “red-hots” in St. Louis.
Q. I wish you would state who told you where you would find Kirby ?
Mr. Provine : That is immaterial.
The Court : Why don’t you want to tell ?
The Witness : I know possibly fifteen hundred people in St. Louis, and I don’t know exactly who told me. I cannot state that.
Q. Where was that place ?
Q. When?
A. Someone of the times he was down there, I think I discussed with Mr. Hammond that was a losing proposition and I wanted to get rid of it and I think I told him afterwards I had sold it.
Q. Alone?
A. That is, one of the family have been always with her, might not have been myself, but it was my brothers or sister.
Q. And it might not have been your sister but it was somebody.
A. Someone of the family, yes.
O’CONNOR, NELLIE, recalled, testified as follows:
By Mr. Lynch:
Re-cross Examination.
Q. Miss O’Connor, I show you a paper marked Defendants’ Exhibit A, I wish you to examine this and also a little postscript that is found at the bottom of it. You have been running a typewriter how many years, Miss O'Connor?
A. Well, I haven't been running a typewriter very much, I don’t do much of that.
Q. From your inspection of that Exhibit A — make that little paragraph there A-x. I show you this instrument typewritten and also attached to it A-x. What do you say whether or not they are in the same typewriting, taking the body of it and comparing it with that last paragraph.
A. Yes. No, I didn’t make it out.
Q. What would you say whether or not it is the same typewriting?
A. That looks more as if it was my typewriting there.
Q. But the comparison between the two, whether or not you think they were made by the same —
A. That one looks heavier, that is all the difference I can see in that, but I know that I didn’t write this because I am not as good a typist and I know I didn’t do that.
Q. Well, what I want to get at, Nell, whether or not you think that the same machine, the same typewriting, those two, that is what I want to get at.
A. Well, they look alike.
Q. And you think that looks —
A. This looks more like the work that our machine does than this.
Q. You don’t think you ever did that?
A. No, I know I didn’t.
Re-direct Examination
By Mr. Patterson
Q. Just one more question, Miss O’Connor, if you will take these two mortgages, Exhibits 1 and 2 and compare your own signatures, do you notice that they are different?
A. Yes, I notice that they are different.
Q. What do you say as to whether or not both of them are your signatures?
A. I would say they were, all the difference is in just that one letter, and I usually write them together in that way but still, however, it is.
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Frank Bellamy Checklist Website and Blog (1 July 2018) : link
It is, admittedly, an extraordinary fantasy...
Es ist freilich eine seltsame Phantasie...
source : Gesammelte Schriften von Walter Benjamin : link
p361
(from archive.org search within text, borrow unavailable) : link
Thus, on the page just cited, Lacan extends his definition of the sign with the following addition: “but the status of this someone is uncertain.”
A Someone of the same nationality
B Someone from the local community
C Someone who is just an ordinary person
D Middle-class...
found inside snippet
google books preview : link
puzzled frown or absent friend.
See lost the joy of Mother,
a broken of no mend.
Such carnage strewn of chaos,
the darkness running blind.
The fallen cries of mercy,
torment the screaming mind.
Cold finger grasp of letters,
last words of love declared.
Blood puddle floats a photograph,
a someone of once cared.