Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longnette on the delegate from come come, come but the colossal criticism mothered by one majesty of mental vacuity who just loved to criticise. I think she would criticise on her death bed, and I rather hope--but that really is not nice at all, do you think so? Anyway when she said that one delightful bit of verse by a certain delightful bit of femininity was "Quite too unexpressive and not sufficiently motivated". I felt a sympathy for that child of Gerhart Hauptanan's imagination who dwelt in a matriarchy...
Perhaps he took too much. Anyway, something allowed him the visionary eyes of a Merlin for he was able to look about the conference and picture the same group ten years from now. The Browning Club of Cherokee Falls will be addressed this afternoon by Mr. Blank, the young American poet, who will take as his subject "Browning's Effect on Me". The one with the lorgnette will have another just like it and swell with emotion at intervals of ten seconds by the wrist watch her husband, gave her as a peace offering the last time he came back...
...creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary art. "Man is a thinking being"--college cramp is the coercive restraint of university skepticism upon the creative mind. Does he weather it he is all the better able to accomplish his end--does he fail, he would probably fail anyway. And merely another victim is offered to the gods of learning--or a bonding house on Wall Street...
...life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...
...publications that have substituted the picture of the body for "X marks the spot" as merely the Daily News. But later in your reference to the Evening Journal you are careful to say the Hearst Evening Journal. Surely every one knows that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst, but anyway, if you must tack the Hearst onto it, why not also mention the names of the gentlemen who own the Daily News? The latter would be news to more of your readers than the information that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst. I like TIME and I work...