Word: fretting
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Whatever the case, be assured the happy Vagabond will not fret too much about it. Professor Lowes is lecturing on the Odes of Wordsworth today at 12 in the Fogg large Room. Those interested will find a stimulating lecture. As for the Vagabond, there are happier thoughts. Immortality? Perhaps the poet is right. But have you seen the foliage? It's on the wane...
Hungarian politicians have worse tempers and more physical courage than any other politicians in Europe. Last week Hungarian politics broke out in a fret of duels, talked and fought...
...Author. Mississippi-born (in Ripley, 1897) and bred, William Faulkner still lives there (at Oxford), with his wife, two stepchildren. Though the Sound and the Fury (1929) made him one of the coming young men, he is a lion whom Manhattan hostesses have fret to capture. He fills big pages with his tiny script, likes, to write to the accompaniment of jazz records. He indulges in solitary golf, shaves irregularly and appears easy-going but, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every...
Timely cashing-in on the kidnapping epidemic, wherein the "phoney"' disappearance of a banker becomes real. In his fortified Park Avenue penthouse, a dozen others, guards and guarded, fret, stab and shoot, the good finally departing over the corpses...
Still swings the murderer, bent of knees In a slightly strained repose, Nor feels the faint hand of the breeze: He now with Solomon all things knows: That, lastly, breath is to a man But to want and fret a span...