Word: dodo
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...before keys turned in locks, when life was a closeup and not an occasional letter, that I hated to swim naked from the rocks while you liked absolutely nothing better? Still stupid with grief, I find these are the only quarrels I remember." And Zelda could only reply: "Oh Dodo, Dodo, I love you anyway, even if there isn't any me or any love, or even life, I love...
...think history will conclude that democracy as an institution was exterminated, like the dodo and the passenger pigeon, because it was unable to anticipate trouble with intelligent action; it could only react blindly like a jellyfish when stimulated by immediate contact...
...lively, accurate, terse presentation of the news, TIME is, unquestionably, the most. But why does your otherwise astute editor persist in using the word "newshen" to identify feminine members of the press? That innocuous but distasteful little noun suggests a fusty old dodo, a far from true description of the hardworking, able newswoman...
...have felt," said he, "that one of the reasons why the millinery business has not kept pace is that since the war we have had nothing as radical as the Empress Eugenie silhouette,* which made every existing fashion as dead as the dodo...
John was so interested in her work that he almost ruined her next sculpture, a bust of his wife. Every few minutes he would stomp in, watch a while, then grumble "I've done 50 portraits of Dodo. I know how she looks, don't I? She has a flat place here. And he would punch his thumb into the clay. Says Fiore: "I couldn't keep him away." Finally she brought down a set of tools for the old painter, and he has been sculpturing ever since...