Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oscar's interest. For haven't you all wanted to see a professional three legged race? What was our dismay to find that this fellow had never been in one. It seems his mother was a beared lady. And she did whatever running there was to be done. Anyway he took a great fancy to my roommate and gave him a message to deliver to the American Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers at their next meeting...
...Sinclair Senior is not a corrupting influence to all young minds. The second argument purports to be from a forthcoming biography of Mr. Sinclair which alludes to him as a Puritan. The third is that most of the quoted bad passages are really from the "Song of Solomon", and anyway Mr. Sinclair feels that the objection to his book is "on political grounds" only. He further shows the courage of his convictions by avowing his intention to read the page chiefly in question on Boston Common censors or no censors...
...they are drunk while playing and debauch the little caddies with their stories and actions. It is to get away from all that kind of thing that the Chicago women are having their own club, I'm certain. Wearing knickers has nothing whatever to do with it and anyway, I'm sure no member of the Illinois Women's Golf Club here would be so vulgar as to wear knickers at any golf club, even in the middle of the night...
...wanted to go to the circus. "But you have your tatting to do and only last night you went to a moving picture and read all the subtitles to a poor blind man who couldn't see Clara Bow and wanted. . . . But a curtain to what he wanted. Anyway, you must not go to the circus. And elephants make you sick. Now the last time...
Just who is this standardized American anyway? He is, it would seem, an even more elusive personality than this Christian Gauss. For just what are his standards, and wherein lies the vice of standardization so long as the standards partake to some extent of the nature of truth...