Word: attics
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...bangs it shut. a front clings to his whiskers as he hacks at them desperately with an ice-cold razor. A nick under his chin bleeds and makes a smear on the collar of his newly-laundered best pink shirt. But the dauntless Vagabond is out of his Attic by eight-thirty and down to the Dining Room to breakfast...
Back in the Attic on his desk the Vagabond has memorandum for a really big day tomorrow. Tomorrow the Vagabond puts on his seven-league boots and winged helmet and does a superhuman job of Vagabonding. At nine he listens to Crane Brinton, Harvard 5, on "Rousseau." At ten to Professor Nolte, Sever 7, on "The Age of Enlightenment". At eleven to Professor Arthur J. Nock, Harvard 2, in History of Religions 1, on "Zoroaster". A well balanced metaphysical diet...
...radiation on organisms, a service which officially exchanges governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane and General Custer's sword and scabbard...
Today was to have been so long. Widener in the morning, a ride to Framingham in the afternoon, study in the Attic till midnight. Instead of that wrote three letters and began a fourth. Did get to see tutor--prepared for once. Mystery, Miracle, and Morality plays...
Alone in robe and slippers in a corner of his Attic sits the Vagabond. But for the single ray that falls from the shaded lamp over his left shoulder, to the book in the Vagabond's lap, the Attic is in darkness. Across the quadrangle a silly radio bleats out a strain of jazz. The Vagabond reads for a moment, then gets up and shuts the window toward the quadrangle. The radio's voice is still. The Vagabond smiles. He knows a trick or two that'll baffle modern science. He reads...