Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...else-relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about'-like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this PLAY isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to despise it, let it try to despise you. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. DON'T TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT, LET IT TRY TO UNDERSTAND...
...Thompson dismounted and walked back and forth among the cannon. ... He replied that the shot was not made that would kill him. ..." Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual pageantry runs pleasantly throughout the book-a relief from recent War stories, whether patriotic or sordid. Author Jacks might have been to the Crusades...
...giving a lecture on "The American Short Story since 1870" this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 1, at which the Vagabond expects to be present. For even if Poe is his favorite, he likes to wipe the cold sweat off his brow every now and then and enjoy the tales of O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, and many others whom Professor Murdock will probably cover...
...Majesty's Governor General, slender, serene, punctilious Viscount Willingdon, began last week to enjoy a brief spring holiday on the Pacific coast of Canada, some 2,200 miles from Ottawa, his Capitol...
...Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory: and not, having done all this, enjoy it immensely...