Word: digressional
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Like everyone else who is really famous the Vagabond has his own "fan mail"--mostly from Poughkeepsie and Northampton with a few letters now and then from his friends in the Freshmen Dining Halls where he conducts experiments on Lowell House food. By way of a short digression it might...
Digression. Called to the stand was suave, genial Colonel John Haydock Carroll, an oldtime lobbyist who proved his professional competence by charming his investigators with stories, diverting their inquiry into amusing byways, by winning their praise for frankness. Lobbyist Carroll had been hired by the U. S. Sugar Association to...
By the end of the 17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born...
After this digression there is still the matter of seeking an amusement--and that can be well done in this evening's papers.
"There are many ways of committing white slavery," suggested the Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society in a momentary digression. "One could do it by crouching in a dark alley with a slouch cap drawn over his eyes and a chloroform handkerchief in one hand and a pistol in...