Word: minding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stuff" v. Vodka Sirs: Anent statement of George Reeves-Smith, Esq. (TIME, April 22), that "the vilest, most scorch ing, absolutely abominable drink I can call to mind, is Russian vodka." Let our British friend depart briefly from the legal U. S. mineral water which he intends to stick to strictly for a fortnight, keeping a tumblerful within reach, and try some of our plentiful, genuine pre-War "stuff." VORIS D. SEAMAN Chicago...
...Vagabond, poor mortal that he is in spite of certain academic proclivities, has hidden away in his mind a few problems and questions which from time to time come forth to irk him with their barbed amorphousness. And among these is the desire to know the identity of the seer who made the immortal observation that "it never rains but it pours." Could he but discover the name of that sooth-sayer, the Vagabond would--at least not wonder any longer and be able to give credit where it is due when the truth of the remark is manifestly clear...
...nature-was invented, in view of the deplorable scarcity of cuckoos that might take upon themselves the task of loudly singing "Summer is icumin in." However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles and "Ask Me Another" combined was about to be put into force again, decided to be a bit beforehand and improve the shining hour-and his physical well-being by undertaking an excursion up the silvan Charles...
...addition, President Lowell said that "the problem of education is to stimulate interest in the mind of the youth and thus lead him to make the proper effort voluntarily and not merely to find for him something he likes, which," he continued, "most often is nothing in particular. All education is self-education, excepting that acquired mechanically, and what one gets out of education depends entirely upon the effort put into the acquisition...
...musing on the eternal brevity of all things in general, and the period between then and his examinations in particular. But the sun shone too brightly and the breeze wafted too softly for such morbid reflections, so that suddenly what with the spring and all there flashed into his mind-one of those inspirations for which the Vagabond is famous-a line of what might, with judicious help of the riming dictionary, be a poem: "If April comes can May be far behind." It had a familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry...