Word: corkscrewing
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...written. It really succeeds in its intention of exalting the ridiculous to the sublime. The author has breathed new life into the bygone idiom of poetic prose, and made it his own. Something should come of this. Mr. Hathaway, in his "Recollections of Reality", enlisted my sympathies with a corkscrew, and then began to alienate them with trout flies. Personally, I have always shunned as tedious any discussion of the superfluous and objectionable passion for hooking fish. But Mr. Hathaway broke down my prejudice with the delicate intimacy of his style, and I am forced to admit that I read...
...beginning of the end for 1914 is tonight. When a class barbecues or country fairs or junkets, there is no hope. It is on the downward corkscrew path to the cold world. What do you mean--junket? It is vaguely nutritive, indefinably edible in sound. Possibly one eats or drinks junk; possibly, one just buys it. Who knows? Junket and be merry, oh Seniors, for tomorrow you may graduate...
...spiritual being, the element of humor evolved by the contrast puts the heroic out of countenance. That old story fathered upon Cromwell, of his being found on his knees by a Puritan preacher whom he told he was 'seeking the Lord,' when in fact he was seeking the corkscrew which had dropped under the table, is a good illustration of what I mean. In life, as in a meanly-appointed theatre, the parts are doubled and the same actor who stalked as the majesty of buried Denmark, may appear as a clown after a change of scenes. The lover...
...five stars have been clearly defined within this ring, and an immense amount of detail concerning the structure of the nebula itself brought out. The nebula of the constellation of the Dragon has been shown to have an unsuspected construction. It seems to be in the shape of a corkscrew, the centre of which is dense. This is surrounded by a nebulous fog, which has been proved to be gaseous matter and which gives forth a peculiar blue light...
...CADY, Captain.LOST-Between Beck Hall and Jarvis Field, silver pocket corkscrew, from Edwards, New York. Reward given if returned to Leavitt and Peirce...