Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comprehensive delimitation of my obligations might be grouped under four categories. . . ." He does not agree that "one horrible long word is shorter. than two or three good short ones. . . ." When he turns up a particularly odious pomposity he calls it ''this seventeen-letter paper-sore...
...back to the Tower and note that the Boylston Contest is on Wednesday night at Paine Hall. This is a mighty fine thing and know I shall go. Soon to walk along the River and soon, my hind parts very sore...
...mind and took to telling me about a lecture he heard recently by an Harvard alumnus wherein much was said about the grave of John Harvard in Charlestown Cemetery being in a deplorable condition and not being tended properly for years. This did make me very sore at my heart and I vowed to bring it to the attention of Mr. Green and the tercentenary authorities when I returned; for if it is true it is indeed a sorry reflection...
...stage the Brown Man shows the White Man how his jazz-age amusement should be done. Louis Armstrong, the King of Swing, sounds too much as if he had a sore throat, but he is amply redeemed by his orchestra. And the rest of the sepia troupe, notably the Mills Brothers, are most exhilarating indeed. Up and away to the Metropolitan; the show this week is first-rate stuff...
...back to the Tower to dress, and, very handsome, to Dunster House to an exhibition of contemporary French paintings. The tea was very good. Thence home and a little sore at my heart that I cannot appreciate this modern art; so I to play my gramophone, and anon...