Word: minding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visions of the Center College eleven of 1921, mixed in with last minute dashes to the Widow's and unfortunate upsets of tea cups at Quincy Street receptions easily suggest themselves to the morbid mind. Too, there is always the chance that the Park Row hack had his fling at Radcliffe romance in his Cambridge days. Perhaps, if Mr. Heywood Broun were still connected with The World, there might have been a hidden, very hidden reference to the language requirements...
...mind of the layman the subject of public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on a large scale to spread propaganda against the idea of public ownership of utilities. In recent years these and other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase...
...prose it is even easier Hardy, of course, would begin, and we might follow him with Doughty (also in line for his poetry) Conrad, and W. H. Hudson. Bear in mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett...
THIS thing called love is an enigma. One reaches a stage at which he thinks he has this delicate subject thoroughly solved and classified in the mind. Suddenly some new experience, some new sensation will present itself and your picture vanishes away in thin air. Such, indeed, is the situation we found ourselves in after trying to absorb the intent of Edna Bryner's recent novel, "While The Bride-Groom Tarried...
...however, with the death of his wife, his engagement to the woman he thought he loved, and his falling desperately in love with a third women. Not having much strength of character, and desirous of letting things drift on as they are he eventually slips into a state of mind from which he never recovers...