Word: loafing
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...through the maze of the literary market, with all financial short cuts plainly marked, will be drawn for 50 students at the Bread Loaf Conference, branch of Middlebury College (Vt.) summer session, which opened this week. "The interests of creative writing" are chiefly nurtured, say the bulletins. Actually the conference is unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil...
...mention that Capt. Fetterman and Custer paid with their lives for some of the atrocities committed against the Indians by soldiers and other whites. Since you copy only what crooked politicians tell you, I will have to stop reading your paper when my subscription expires. Yes, Coolidge will now loaf in the Black Hills, he will fatten on land which by broken treaties belongs to the Indians...
...last eleven years the longest time I have stayed in one place was eight months and that was when I was in London. I cannot keep still. If I stay like this my grandchildren will be tying me to a tree in the back yard. . . .I have decided to loaf about the world for two years and shall probably be all over the place unless stopped and made to write another book. Sometimes I wish I was just a plain, ordinary newspaper man again.'" George Bernard Shaw: "To the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation, which I established with...
Next day the waiter of Lord Birkenhead, one Xavier Coutiniera, bought a mammoth sow. Rich, he prepared to loaf...
...Post), I went with a common reporter to visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this...