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...mean to exclude even a young Vagabond when he wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces...
...certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces and hands and walls that tilt with some interior volition- these he painted. To describe his paintings in this way is to speak principally...
...they say that the boys dash in and eat and dash out again?" queried Joe, lifting the reporter's coffee-cup, and with one swoop of a cloth dispersing crumbs and other foreign substances on the table. "They cone in and they stand around and can't decide whether they want a sea-going or two black-and-tans and a large milk. And then they take their own time eating and when I come to take the dishes they aren't finished yet, and they hang on to the plates and hinder my work. And when they've finally...
...sunk in the harbor. The horses at the track-had run off through the ruins of their stables. The windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle of Havana the American monument lay on its face...
...another week of portents. Its atmosphere troubled by sunspots, its crust similarly affected and adjusting itself to isostasy (equilibrium), Earth underwent varied disturbances. At Ridgefield, N. J., the black cone of a cyclone descended upon a lumber factory, swept a big church flat as a card house, ripped through houses, garages. It flooded streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later...