Word: perched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when I could throw all cares aside and go some place in a little flat-bottomed boat. And there in that boat I could sit under a big sunbonnet, with a little, old fishing pole, and I could sit all day and fish for sunfish and perch...
...John Keats' Endymion: "calm, settled, imperturbable driveling idiocy." Gentle Poet Swinburne thus describes Ralph Waldo Emerson to his face: "a gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus or choragus of his Bulgarian tribe of autocoprophagous baboons, who make the filth they feed on. . . ." Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This...
Currier & Ives, famed poster lithographers (TIME, Nov. 25), printed a cartoon of Lincoln, being ridden on a rail to a lunatic asylum (the White House) by the young Republican Party. Shirt-sleeved, he balances precariously on his perch, regarding the troupe, black libertines, thugs, abolitionists, Mormons. One particularly vicious lady looks up into his face saying: "Oh, what a beautiful man he is. I feel a passional attraction." Out of "Abe's" mouth floats a balloon: "Now my friends, I'm almost in and the millenium is about to begin so ask what you want and it shall...