Word: fidget
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This is what Dartmouth Night should be like, according to its concept. But it isn't actually, at least of late. For Dartmouth men have begun to fidget in their seats when the telegrams are read, and they no longer join so heartily in the singing. They have begun to think of Dartmouth Night as mawkish and maudlin, and they are all for washing it out of the pretty green picture...
Representing their electorates last week were three Senators who will never know what it is like to fidget through a filibuster. Reason: they were elected to fill vacancies from November 9 through January 2, and the Senate will not sit until January...
...like burlesque and Annabella, relax for three hours at the University; if you dislike to see Shakspere used to confound the unenlightened, and to watch English producers get horribly involved in their machinations to make a mystery picture mysterious, fidget and repent that you did not go elsewhere...
...darkens, Europe mixes her cups of deah, all the little Caesars fidget on their thrones. The old wound opens its clotted mouth to ask for new wounds. Men will fight through; men have tough hearts . . . I see far fires and dim degradation Under the warplanes and neither Christ nor Lenin will save you. I see the March rain walk on the mountain, sombre and lovely on the green mountain. . . . I wish you could find the secure value, The allheal I found . . . The splendor of inhuman things...
High overhead all the disturbance, the big bass bell seems to fidget uneasily. Not yet. No. No one is beating a wastebasket yet. But soon . . . Yes, there goes that tinny one now, beaten with a shoe--cynical applause. Shucks, this fellow practicing on his violin in the dark shadows of the tower room gets as much response from the boys with a pound or so of wood and gut as a wild, untuned bell gets with a ton of metal on Sunday mornings...