Word: distractedness
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The Story. Lavinia Roderick, light of step and heart, the fairest flower of Henrico County, was coming down to dinner in Todd Hundred, Va. For three days a party had been in progress to celebrate her engagement to Gawin Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall...
"Nearly five years have passed since the close of the most devastating of wars. The earth is still reeling like a drunken man. The inhabitants thereof are bereft of reason by the poison gas of racial antagonisms in a world that was nearly destroyed by hate, and is seeking to...
"With what Sir Phillip Gibbs says. I agree", declared Mr. Villard, "down to the last word. The point is that the French are violating the moral law; that at the very moment when the moral sense of the world is struggling as never before to free itself from the domination...
Then it was, that the attention of the Little Red Gods was distracted by more pressing matters in other parts of Europe, and the misfortunes of signor Misiano began. He managed to become involved in a lawsuit with a Neapolitan newspaper, which obtained possession of and proceeded to publish some...
Perhaps it is not all your fault. Suppose that in your Senior year you found that you could obtain an excellent position if you mastered a certain subject, say history. You would try to concentrate upon it, to give evening after evening and day after day to the subject. But...