Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minds. Mildly pesimistic warbles of the lovelorn, or the all-suffering optimism of toil-worn drudges, and the respectable melancholia of discontented city-folk receive a great deal of attention. As a safety valve for vague emotions, this poetry is pleasingly comfortable for its portrays little more than an armchair attitude toward life...
...week I showed that I still have the use of my legs by climbing up into the Dome of St. Peter's, a feat rarely accomplished by any of my predecessors, obese or otherwise. Although a strong wind was blowing, I sat for about an hour in an armchair on the balcony, watching some workmen build the new Vatican seminary...
Very little intensive archaeological work has yet been done in the Maya area. If the riddle is to be solved it will be done by energetic labor in the field and not by armchair theorizing and fireside dreaming. It is not beyond the limits of possibility that more codices more ancient books, will some day be found in sealed chests or chambers...
...armchair...
Much as Mr. Arthur D. Little may yearn for a society in which the pure light of reason exercises its true worth, it is highly probable that the power of his newly invented Fifth Estate will remain the hope of an armchair, philosopher...