Word: contemplatione
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"Knock it out of the lot, Eddie!" Cobb may have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations...
¶Were startled when Viscount Burnham, outstanding publicist, holder of an LL. D. from the universities of Cambridge, McGill, Athens and Perth (West Australia) began to speak bristling words of indignation: "The proceedings of this House now constitute a parliamentary scandal! The House of Commons now passes what bills they...
Following this categorical denial, Dr. Lasker struck back with a sensational countercharge. He asserted that on his last appearance in this country evil hands had tampered with the chess-clock, a two-faced affair intended for impartial allotment of thinking-time to the combatants. The clock, wrote Dr. Lasker, used...
"We were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying...
Contemplation of Death. When potent men feel Death creeping upon them, when they realize that the state inheritance tax will cut a large slice out of their estate, then they may well be moved to trim down their worldly goods with deeds of philanthropy. In Wisconsin they heretofore had to...