Word: boredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty-eight hours before ascending he ceased to take solid food. Moreover he has trained himself to sleep for ten minutes every hour on his stool. Lest he topple off while asleep, his thumbs are thrust tightly into holes bored in the eight-inches-in-diameter wooden seat.
"They let us approach ridiculously close. Sometimes they were too bored even to look at us, and we had to whistle to attract their attention, though often the noise of the camera would bring them out of cover, from curiosity, to join those already before the lens. In all my...
In his plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful...
Stoking coal on an ocean steamship has commonly been regarded as one of the least attractive of all occupations--the sword that hangs over the head of stowa ways who are caught, the last resort of those who are bent on working their way to Europe by any means. The...
The gospal was never so charming. Other lady evengelists-older, less naive, more obviously theatrical-have argued the good cause before; they too have been moved to frensy before crowds which came for prayer and remained to discuss a personality. But none has so firmly established her message. Not without...