Word: mends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps some will think the Vagabond has become too lyrical, too little the student and too much the vagabond. He offers no excuse; he merely asks indulgence for one of his failings. He will try to mend his ways. But before he departs to try to become a student let him again suggest that if anyone would enjoy himself he could do worse than bend his steps toward Symphony Hall tonight since-Let us be chivalrous whatever be the cost-it is Radcliffe Night...
...trial continued, with Mr. Sapiro hoping that the real Mr. Ford would soon mend...
Polykushka, however, is showing. Its simple story is the tragedy of a 19th Century serf, a drunkard and a petty thief. His mistress forgives him a serious larceny, provided he swear on the Cross to mend his ways. This the poor wretch solemnly does, whereupon, to prove her faith in him, the benefactress despatches him to bring a purse of rubles from the village. In the course of the errand, the money is accidentally lost. The miserable serf hangs himself from a rafter in the barn, while an honest traveler returns the money found along the roadside, to the owner...
...Banbury tinkers mend one hole and make three."?Old Saying...
That you may mend, that you may mend...