Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is the nature of the work? What is a trail; anyway? A trail is cleared "when it has been made so passable by removal of growth of all sorts that a tramper with pack and horizontal blanket-roll, proceeding steadily, upright will encounter no obstructions, and will be able to see the footway a few steps ahead." The work consists of subtracting from the natural growth of the forest along the route of the trail whatever is necessary to reduce it to the above qualifications...
...cold blasts of air which came across the snows of the Yard found me at my post leaning against it. I was tired, had been playing marbles all day at Mrs. Jack Gardner's and refused four invitations to go on tour with the Boston Debutantes. Anyway there I was when an old man with whiskers and a cheerful cigar approached, saying, "Is this Hollis Hall." I brushed the ashes from his cigar and begged the question. He repeated it five times which I raised to seven by local subscription. And there we were. All of which I would have...
...should let an old man break the ice for a cocktail in the middle of Harvard Yard on a frosty morning. Now if it had been summer or even fall, especially spring, I would have been able to give him my permission, for there is no ice then anyway...
...United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Miss Frye...
...mean girlies, but the girlies don't mean anything. The only chance for a thriller in all this respectability is lost when you discover that these before mentioned models are all done up in muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until they resolve to split the business. Their lawyer-proposes a poker game, the partners play and brother Johns loses to brother Nettleton. By the contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler for one year, paying the sum of one hundred dollars...