Word: crabbedness
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Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living...
The following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: POOR PINNEY-Marian Chapman -Boni ($2.00). Poor Pinney is an inoffensive, pathetic and extremely objectionable little commuter. He is a tyrant in his own home and keeps up a...
In these crabbed times of Turkish turmoil Republican uneasiness, and undergraduate suspense we are not unlike that idolatrous generation which seeketh a sign. How much better would it have been for the contemporaries of Noah had they perceived upon the horizon the true character of the little cloud, which, the...
Another argument can be advanced which seems particularly applicable to the case in hand; namely, the use of the rifle is of great benefit in strengthening the eyesight, and what could be a more beneficial change for a man who has spent an hour over a text-book in crabbed...
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose," etc.