Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carrie Gloyd married the Rev. David Nation, veteran of the Civil War. In 1901 the Rev. Nation, divorced her on grounds of desertion, cruelty. It had been her custom to sit in the front pew while he was preaching, comment audibly upon his sermon. When she had listened as long as seemed to her sufficient, she would shout out: "That will be about all for today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord...
...truth, however, is that such efforts mean little or nothing either as fiction or fact. There is a thing known as a sense of proportion and it is not entirely out of place in literature. Practically any college student who has passed his elementary courses in English composition can sit down and describe the life around him-as he see it. And the consequence in the majority of cases is extremely uninteresting and also inaccurate. His proximity to his material makes proper vision impossible; what he sees as great pulsating problems turn out to be mere details which always clutter...
...Paris, a figure of fashion with white gloves to emphasize his pointed hands, he rode through the Bois de Boulogne in a cabriolet. To late suppers in his rooms, each lady would bring a flower, at the most perfect of which, Chopin, frozen into a temperamental abstraction, would sit for a long time staring...
...although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...none at all. The two places where he makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together. He does not like everything else he treats--but almost, and it cannot be possible for any one man to find so many new books that he likes so well...