Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to be a party, if I can help it, to anyone being married by Church service who has been divorced. "I am not going to make the word of God a blasphemous farce [by condoning divorce]. No man has a right to ask a bishop to be a party to any such disgusting and gross act of blasphemy. If you don't like it, go to a register office and say 'I will take you until you make life absolutely impossible, and then I will be done with you.' That is the honest thing...
There are genteel murmurs, Jewish gestures. The murmurs ask: "How much is this book worth?" The gestures tell how much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley...
...nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much greater than when the sugar content is high. Therein may be partial explanation for loss of appetite after candy eating. But why, candy-eaters might ask, do cigaret-smokers lack good appetites...
...College no longer existant even in name, and above all a desecrated Yard. It is this last calamity that seems above all others to arouse Mr. Hall's apprehension. "The Yard, our only shrine, will be obliterated" is the constant burden of his opposition. One feels tempted to ask callously, "What of it?" Certainly no Harvard man can expect the University to preserve the physical aspect of his undergraduate days. The Yard has been desecrated several times within the last twenty years, and House Plan or no House Plan will neither look the same nor hold exactly the same place...
...down. Next time we will. Tomorrow you sit over near that door and I'll sit at this one and then when he comes you come over and get me or I'll come over and get you and we'll go and sit at his table. Then you ask me something about how's my reading or do I know a good summer job or who's going to win the fight tonight...