Letters, Jul. 4, 1938
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"To avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another.
C. CARLETON SEMPLE
New York City
Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat.—ED.
Word
Sirs:
Can TIME, always resourceful and concise, coin a word describing the occupation of a person who lives on an income from investments?
The French have a word for it—rentier—but I know of no one English word.
T. J. INGRAM JR.
Lynchburg, Va.
Not to be applied to everyone who lives on income from investments, but only to the really inane rich, TIME suggests "incompoop."—ED.
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