Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said. "You'll have to write the Vagabond for me tonight. My nerves are completely unstrung, yes, indeed, unstrung. The Old Woman, that's bad enough; but Alice too! Dear me, bless my soul, these women...
...Tower, where weary with happy work I to play my grama phone a while to rest myself. But not for long for I did note an exhibition of Lewis Carroll's works be at the Widener Treasure Room. So I to Widener, and, bless my soul, did there catch a little girl reciting...
...this principle, and many others, he doth set down-as is the business of philosophers-a notion upon which a systematic metaphysical cosomology ought to be constructed. And this be the far-reaching notion "that the energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life." Which, bless my soul, is an exceeding fine idea for it doth relate the activities of life and nature into the creative reality; and doth make us and our experiences an integral part of the whole. But this meaningless to those who know not philosophy...
...Lord! Enough of this business; the man be greater than his works; and I be as much charmed by his kindliness, his "god bless my souls", and his complimentary "you knows" as I be fascinated by the adventure of his thoughts. I do listen to him and my heart doth feel that here indeed is nature's spokesman...
...pretty betimes, and, very merry, by foot to the office reading a Valentine: "I play for your heart, sweet one, Yet win it may I never do; For it isn't the prize I crave But only the game to pursue: La, la!" It be signed, "Fanny". But, bless my soul, I know no "Fanny". Yet if "Fanny" be as bad as her poetry, methinks nothing is missed...