Word: ponderer
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Firpo. After receiving a note from Manhattan's police department protesting that his wild bull automobile was stampeding traffic, Firpo moved across the Canadian border and showed off in Montreal. Thence he journeyed to ponder the tossing waters of Niagara; thence to Cleveland about automobiles, his business side line; thence to New York again, to shut his desk and embark with friends for a pugilistic grand tour of South America, commencing at Lima, Peru...
...same time married to Eugene Boissevain, a young importer of Dutch extraction who plays an excellent game of tennis, dances gracefully and seems to appreciate the arts. What effect this marriage will have upon the poetry of Miss Millay is a question for the psychologists to ponder and time to answer...
...second-rate. They are excellent things of their sort, and make very enjoyable occasional reading. Our quarrel is not with them but with their sort. We can find them, or things very much like them, in any issue of the Evening Post, and chuckle at their wit and ponder over their philosophy. But in a volume we somehow look for a more sustained effort, more unity, and greater depth. It is not that we like the paragraphs less, but that they shine poorly in contrast with what their author has done in other fields...
...Waldorf, or strolling to Music 4, who has chanced to wonder what Galli-Curci eats at that selfsame hour? What student of English 35a would not be unlifted for having enjoyed Billy Sunday's conception of manna? Even the sleepy, rising late after an evening's enjoyment, might ponder while drinking their coffee, whether Otis Skinner were up yet, and whether he'd ask for one lump...
...duty which says that date is "as late as he ought to begin the study of his profession or the apprenticeship for his career." This American frenzy for an early plunge into life, though necessary in many cases, is a principle of doubtful merit. Harvard should at least ponder well before encouraging it so frankly...