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...were in seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects, and perhaps the fact that it was brought to his attention that Professor Pray is to lecture...
...dream, waking farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...
...branches so that when Joseph found her there he would think the top part of the tree had fallen on her. There was a thunder storm that night, and Musket, who was an old dog and had just had a somewhat exhausting love affair, was annoyed at having to sniff about the damp slippery woods all night. In the morning Joseph found Metabel and promised that he would not cut down any more ash trees. He even kissed...
...have been trying ever since I received the first number of your magazine to decide just what your standards are. In articles in which you have condemned pornographic magazines you have yet managed to give in your own columns a sniff of their odor. You occasionally lug into your news items terms not usually found outside of medical journals. You have an irritating habit of dubbing people with names according to their calling or accomplishments, a style of writing that gives an impression of veiled sarcasm from which no one is immune. Your latest accomplishment has been to find (issue...
...puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician himself on orthodox instruments. His departures, though radical, are too sincere to be dismissed with a sniff for the showoff. He is, first of all, an earnest young man. Had Manhattan waxed indignant, as did Paris when the mistake was made of facing the propeller toward the audience and thereby nearly blasting them into the street, the youthful creator might have derived satisfaction. Had he been dissected with...