Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article concerning the finding of manuscripts of Diderot's interested me very much. The accompanying picture by Meissonier . . . brought to mind a story...
When TIME'S Sport editor Marshall Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house...
...scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
...smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little askew, but his mind is as precise as an engineer's slipstick...
There were always in the background of his life his sisters, as there was always in the back of his mind his bitter youth to direct his imagination. So influential do the sisters seem to have been that one of the greatest weaknesses of Author Elias' biography is that he does not tell considerably more about them. The best of Dreiser's writing, Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, surely reflected their lives as much...