Word: listeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haphazard. The old and the young, the halt and the well, the first and the last were seated more or less at random by a large corps of Junior Ushers, even as the wind, blowing where it listeth, soweth the weeds...
...Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera follows, watching urchin Tom Garner high diving into a rocky bottom, president Tom Garner buying up rusty railroads, husband Tom Garner sweating out, for his wife, the tale of his new love...
...over the scroll of worthies, all great men in their time, sons of thunder, shakers of the earth,--and now forgotten. Like all of the Vagabond's musings, this one had an external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality is frailly linked to a note in a textbook, a piping lyric in an old anthology. The thought came to him that all these men, whom we read now with...
...Hammer in the Building of the Wooden Horse." It requires all his alchemy to turn such prosey matter into palatable pap for the undergraduate. The sweet, sad music of humanity has suddenly become rather blatant jazz. And in, addition all this about the Vagabond wandering as he listeth with no man for his master, caring only for the free life and indulging only in an occasional lecture because he likes it is fiction--unadulterated fiction. Day after tomorrow for example he wanders to Sever for a mid-year examination. Ah, there's the carefree life. Read this stuff twice...