Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual curiosity. Robert Fitzgerald can write vividly of boys playing marbles in a yard, speculating without passion or anger on their fates-one becoming a dealer in jewels and watches, another grown ruddy from "sunning in the South." He can interrupt these reflections with strange asides that suggest the unpredictable quality of his imagination: How earth pulls us and pulls the moon Our bones know casually...
When Kelly, Varsity football captain arises promptly at eight to introduce Dean Hanford tonight, however, there will be no Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club to interrupt...
...hear this story we must interrupt a lecture in American literature. The professor was waxing enthusiastic...
Persians developed the art of training pigeons and the Greeks used pigeons to carry the names of Olympic winners to various cities. The French pigeon post during the Siege of Paris in 1871 was so successful that the Germans employed hawks and falcons to interrupt the service. Best means of frightening away birds of prey is to provide pigeons with bells and whistles...
Originally taken down as stenographic notes at Pareto's lectures, The Mind and Society reveals its origin by its formlessness, by its expositions abandoned half-complete, its digressions that often interrupt its arguments. Occasionally it reveals a trained lecturer's wit, and frequent sardonic asides suggest the old professor addressing students who have not won his respect. No democrat, Pareto would not simplify his thought for the masses, felt that the secrets of history were harmful to most. In his will were rigid provisions that no popular exposition of his ideas should preface his books: "My sole interest...