Word: retch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other of their eyes watched in sturdy appreciation the prying crocus crimson through the lawn." Even after allowing for the worst that the printer can have done to the English, one must blame the critic's botany. Mr. Mackaye, we are told, "is too sane and healthy to retch the infinite." Alas! A. W. W. is not. "In the end, however, I should say of this poet: his are the bowels of pity, where is the belly of fire? And this would be my ultimate criticism. His soul needs ignition--if that means more fire." I do not know about...