Word: fie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fie is a Democrat. He ran for President one year...
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...Fie said he had started reading a serial in the Saturday Evening Post while he was en route home and wanted to finish it right away. It was E. Phillips Oppenheim's story, The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent. This morning ... he asked me to have the publishers send him the concluding chapters tomorrow. I told him that could not be arranged and he grumbled...
...into the left field bleachers and the score was tied, 3-to-3. After Kuhel and Bluege both got on base, Manager Terry nodded to "Pop"' Luque. No trace of dismay showed on Luque's wrinkled face as he trudged to the mound on short, bowed legs. Fie fed Sewell a curve which went for an easy grounder, and the inning was over...
...Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best in the comparative bluntness of prose. And in modern...