Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard me play my piccolo, haven't you?" This reporter had heard him play at a Lampoon banquet. "Well, I tell you, those days are gone. Not that they aren't nice boys, you understand. But their appreciation of art, of the finer things of life...No, I don't play any more, after their dances." Bob and his audience shook their heads sadly, reminiscently...
...future plans Dr. Little had nothing definite to say. "I would gladly tell you what my plans are," he said, "but I do not know myself what work I will do. For the present I will continue in my research work...
Stripped of all ornament, bare and ruthless, the stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...
Where this theory that the colleges are going to the demnition bow-wows arose, no one knows. Neither can anyone mark with assurance the origin of its counterpoint. But that both have been overdone, anyone connected with any college will tell you. Of course, there is something wrong with the colleges and the undergraduates; if there were not, they would not be normal. But whatever dislocation there may be, is not, as has been assumed by the protagonists in the discussions, the kind that permanently warps the subject. One cannot help arriving at the conclusion that a good deal...
...marriage to a woman he admires and respects but does not love. He is called to the telephone and thrown into constemation on hearing the girl he really loves warn him she would never marry, and would wait forever for him. Truly a pleasant thing to tell a man the evening he is about to "embark on the greatest adventure in life...