Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in Doyers St., Manhattan, the miserables of the island, unostentatiously mouch along. Drunks muse on the likelihood of panhandling the price of a finger or two of "likker" (anything with alcoholic content). Drug addicts deviously ponder methods of getting another "shot of morph" (hypodermic injection of morphine), or a "sniff of snow" (nasal inhalation of crystalline cocaine). Homeless and friendless they are for the most part, and normally mindful of their own fuzzy, vague affairs...
...were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate had had some secret traffic with old John the Orangeman. But John, whene...
...dull and lazy members, will soon become a body of no mark or likelihood dedicated to the purchase of magazines and ash trays for the common room, and little more. Wherefore it behooves the members of the Class of 1929 to realize the importance of todays' elections and to ponder carefully when they mark their ballots in today's elections...
...title down in large letters and ponder over it, you will probably ferret out the significance. It is a story of an English bachelor with a past. The past is about to become all there is of his bachelorhood. He is marrying a U. S. heiress on the morrow. Only he does not know she is an heiress and she does not know he is an earl. Neither does she know about a married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late...
...them to sleep. An opinion prevails among many of the Satellites that the man who thinks is a depraved animal. Thus, shunning depravity, they fall blindly into it. Superficial cleverness passes current for wisdom. A spark is mistaken for true fire. They babble of many things, but ponder few. And so the great problems of mankind pass lightly over their untroubled heads, while they chatter about the trifles of yesterday and today...